Hypsipyle

Latin Hypsipylē and its etymon, the Ancient Greek Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη (Hupsipúlē).

• IPA^(key): /hɪpˈsɪpɪliː/

Hypsipyle

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη (Hupsipúlē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hypˈsi.py.leː/, [hʏpˈs̠ɪpʏɫ̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ipˈsi.pi.le/, [ipˈsiːpile]

Hypsipylē f sg (genitive Hypsipylēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Hypsipyle (Lemnian queen)
2. Synonym of Lēmnos (Lemnos (an island in the northeastern Aegaean Sea))

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• Hypsipylaeus, Hypsipylēus

• English: Hypsipyle
• French: Hypsipyle

• “Hypsĭpy̆lē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hypsĭpy̆lē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 762/1.
• “Hypsipylē” on page 812/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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