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Proserpina.

Proserpina or Proserpine, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; wife of Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily, and carried her to Hades to be queen of the Underworld; equivalent to Greek Persephone, goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation; conflated with earlier Italic Roman deity Libera

10 characters4 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

name[proːˈsɛr.pɪ.na]Classical-Latin[prɔˈsɛr.pɪ.na]Classical-Latin[proˈs̬ɛr.pi.na]
  1. Proserpina or Proserpine, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; wife of Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily, and carried her to Hades to be queen of the Underworld; equivalent to Greek Persephone, goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation; conflated with earlier Italic Roman deity Libera

    Roman · declension-1
  2. the Underworld

    declension-1 · poetic
Where this word comes from

From a form of Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

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