Cleopatra

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Cleopatra (given name)

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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/

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Proper noun edit

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.

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Noun edit

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.

Anagrams edit

• acropetal

Pronunciation edit

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

Proper noun edit

Cleopatra f

1. Cleopatra

Anagrams edit

• Paracleto, percolata, placatore

Pronunciation edit

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

Proper noun edit

Cleopatra f (genitive Cleopatrae); first declension

1. Cleopatra

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

References edit

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

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Cleopatra

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Proper noun edit

Cleopatra f

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