Ἑκάτη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • Ἑκᾰ́τᾱ (Hekátā)

Etymology

Possibly the feminine equivalent of Ἑκατός (Hekatós) or ἑκάεργος (hekáergos), an obscure epithet of Apollo, derived from ἑκάς (hekás, “far away”), variously interpreted as "one who works/operates from afar," "one who drives off,"[1] "the far reaching one" or "the far-darter."[2] Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis, who was very closely associated (and sometimes conflated) with Hekate. Or possibly from an Anatolian language.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἑκᾰ́τη • (Hekátē) f (genitive Ἑκᾰ́της); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Hecate

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ἑκᾰ́τη; τῆς Ἑκᾰ́της (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἑκᾰ́τη
hē Hekátē
Genitive τῆς Ἑκᾰ́της
tês Hekátēs
Dative τῇ Ἑκᾰ́τῃ
têi Hekátēi
Accusative τὴν Ἑκᾰ́την
tḕn Hekátēn
Vocative Ἑκᾰ́τη
Hekátē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Ἑκᾰτεῖον (Hekateîon)
  • Ἑκᾰταῖος (Hekataîos)
  • Ἑκᾰ́της δεῖπνον (Hekátēs deîpnon, “Hekate's dinner”)
  • Ἑκᾰταῖᾰ κᾰτεσθίειν (Hekataîa katesthíein, “rapscallion”)

Descendants
  • English: Hecate
  • Greek: Εκάτη (Ekáti)
  • Latin: Hecatē
  • → Russian: Гека́та (Gekáta)

References
  1. Charles Anthon, A Classical Dictionary (Harper & Brothers, 1869)
  2. P. E. Wheelwright, Metaphor and Reality (1975, →ISBN
  • “Ἑκάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἑκάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἑκάτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012
  • 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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