Τισιφόνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τίσις (tísis, “payment, punishment, vengeance”) +‎ φόνος (phónos, “murder”), literally “avenging murder”.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τῐσῐφόνη • (Tisiphónē) f (genitive Τῐσῐφόνης); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tisiphone (one of the Erinyes/Dirae, and a companion of Nemesis/Invidia)

Declension
First declension of ἡ Τῐσῐφόνη; τῆς Τῐσῐφόνης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Τῐσῐφόνη
hē Tisiphónē
Genitive τῆς Τῐσῐφόνης
tês Tisiphónēs
Dative τῇ Τῐσῐφόνῃ
têi Tisiphónēi
Accusative τὴν Τῐσῐφόνην
tḕn Tisiphónēn
Vocative Τῐσῐφόνη
Tisiphónē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
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