Cleopatra

See also: Cleópatra and Cleòpatra

English

Alternative forms

• Kleopatra

Etymology

From Middle English Cleopatra, from Latin Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Cleopatra (plural Cleopatras)

1. A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.
2. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Derived terms

• Cleopatra mandarin

Related terms

• Cleopas

Translations

a given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty

• Albanian: Kleopatra
• Arabic: كْلِيوْبَاتْرَا f (kliwbātrā)

  Egyptian Arabic: كليوباترا (kliubātra, kilubatra)

• Armenian: Կլեոպատրա (hy) (Kleopatra)

  Old Armenian: Կղէոպատրա (Kłēopatra)

• Bulgarian: Клеопа́тра f (Kleopátra)
• Catalan: Cleòpatra (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克萊奧帕特拉 / 克莱奥帕特拉 (Kèlái'àopàtèlā)

• Coptic: ⲕⲗⲉⲟⲡⲁⲧⲣⲁ (kleopatra), ⲕⲗⲉⲩⲡⲁⲧⲣⲁ (kleupatra)
• Czech: Kleopatra f
• Danish: Kleopatra
• Esperanto: Kleopatra
• Faroese: Kleopatra f
• Finnish: Kleopatra
• French: Cléopâtre (fr) f
• Georgian: კლეოპატრა (ḳleoṗaṭra)
• German: Kleopatra (de) f
• Greek: Κλεοπάτρα (el) f (Kleopátra)

  Ancient: Κλεοπάτρα f (Kleopátra)

• Hungarian: Kleopátra (hu)
• Italian: Cleopatra (it) f
• Japanese: クレオパトラ (Kureopatora)
• Korean: 클레오파트라 (Keulle'opateura)
• Latin: Cleopatra
• Macedonian: Клеопатра (Kleopatra)
• Marathi: क्लिओपात्रा f (kliopātrā)
• Persian: کلئوپاترا (kle'opâtrâ)
• Polish: Kleopatra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cleópatra f
• Romanian: Cleopatra
• Russian: Клеопа́тра (ru) f (Kleopátra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Клеопатра f

  Roman: Kleopatra f

• Slovak: Kleopatra f
• Slovene: Kleópatra (sl) f
• Spanish: Cleopatra f
• Thai: คลีโอพัตรา (Klii-oo-pát-dtraa)
• Turkish: Kleopatra
• Ukrainian: Клеопа́тра f (Kleopátra)
• Urdu: قلوپطرہ

Noun

Cleopatra (plural Cleopatras)

1. A woman of great seductive beauty.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:

     Inanna becomes the archetype for all the Cleopatras to come; she is "the bitch goddess" who from her first appearance in Sumerian civilization will live on in all other civilizations - in myth and legend, novel and poem, Shakespearean play and Hollywood film.

2. A variety of apple.
3. The Cleopatra butterfly (Gonepteryx cleopatra).

Anagrams

• acropetal

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kle.oˈpa.tra/
• Rhymes: -atra
• Hyphenation: Cle‧o‧pà‧tra

Proper noun

Cleopatra f

1. Cleopatra

Anagrams

• Paracleto, percolata, placatore

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kleˈo.pa.tra/, [kɫ̪eˈɔpät̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kleˈo.pa.tra/, [kleˈɔːpät̪rä]

Proper noun

Cleopatra f (genitive Cleopatrae); first declension

1. Cleopatra

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Cleopatra
genitive	Cleopatrae
dative	Cleopatrae
accusative	Cleopatram
ablative	Cleopatrā
vocative	Cleopatra

References

• Cleopatra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kleoˈpatɾa/ [kle.oˈpa.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -atɾa
• Syllabification: Cle‧o‧pa‧tra

Proper noun

Cleopatra f

1. Cleopatra (a given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty)