Πρόκνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”), used to refer to eagles, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Πρόκνη • (Próknē) f (genitive Πρόκνης); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Procne

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Πρόκνη; τῆς Πρόκνης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Πρόκνη
hē Próknē
Genitive τῆς Πρόκνης
tês Próknēs
Dative τῇ Πρόκνῃ
têi Próknēi
Accusative τὴν Πρόκνην
tḕn Próknēn
Vocative Πρόκνη
Próknē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Πρόκνη (Prókni)
  • Latin: Procne

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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