Hecate

See also: Hécate and Hècate

English

Alternative forms
various rare or obsolete forms
  • Ecate, Echate [15th century]
  • Hecat, Hecat’, Heccat, Hekat [17th century]
  • Hecatê, Hecaté, Hecatè, Hekate (uncommon)

Etymology

Via Latin Hecatē from Ancient Greek Ἑκάτη (Hekátē), possibly the feminine equivalent of Ἑκατός (Hekatós) or ἑκάεργος (hekáergos), an obscure epithet of Apollo, variously interpreted as "one who works/operates from afar", "one who drives off",[1] "the far reaching one" or "the far-darter".[2] Some rather suggest that the name derives from Ancient Greek ἑκών (hekṓn, “will”).[3]

Pronunciation
  • (US) enPR: hĕʹkətē, hĕʹkǐt, IPA(key): /ˈhɛkəti/, /ˈhɛkɪt/[4]
  • (UK) enPR: hĕʹkətē, IPA(key): /ˈhɛkəti/[5]
  • Rhymes: (US) -ɛkɪt

Proper noun

Hecate

  1. The powerful goddess, in Greek mythology, of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.
  2. (astronomy) 100 Hekate, a main belt asteroid.

Coordinate terms

Translations

References
  1. Charles Anthon, A Classical Dictionary (Harper & Brothers, 1869)
  2. P. E. Wheelwright, Metaphor and Reality (1975, →ISBN
  3. Jenny Strauss Clay, in Hesiod's Cosmos (Cambridge University Press, 2003, →ISBN, lists a number of researchers who associate Hecate's name and "will", e.g. Walcot (1958), Neitzel (1975), and Derossi (1975); she identifies "the name and function of Hecate as the one 'by whose will' prayers are accomplished and fulfilled". This interpretation also appears in Liddell and Scott's A Greek English Lexicon.
  4. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Via“Hecate”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  5. “Hecate”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑκᾰ́τη (Hekátē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hecatē f sg (genitive Hecatēs); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Hecate; daughter of the Titan Perses and Titaness Asteria (sister of Latona); the presider over enchantments, conjurations; a goddess of magic, the night moon, the underworld, and of the haunted crossroad; variously conflated with Roman deities Diana Trivia (crossroads), Luna (moonlight), and Proserpina (Hades)

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Hecatē
Genitive Hecatēs
Dative Hecatae
Accusative Hecatēn
Ablative Hecatē
Vocative Hecatē

Derived terms
  • Hecatēius
  • Hecatēïs

Further reading
  • “Hecate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hecate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 738.
  • Hecate in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3022
  • “Hecate”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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