Pasiphae

• Pasiphaë

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πασιφάη (Pasipháē).

IPA^(key): /pəˈsɪf.eɪ.i/ (compare with Danae)

Pasiphae

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Helios and the sister of Circe. She was raised as a princess at Cholchis, and then given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, and Catreus. She was also the mother of the Minotaur.
2. (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.

• Pāsiphaa

From Ancient Greek Πασιφάη (Pasipháē), derived from πᾶσι (pâsi, “to all”) + φάος (pháos, “light”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈsi.pʰa.eː/, [päːˈs̠ɪpʰäeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈsi.fa.e/, [päˈs̬iːfäe]

Pāsiphaē f sg (genitive Pāsiphaēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Pasiphae

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

• → English: Pasiphae
• Italian: Pasifae, Pasife

• “Pasiphae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pasiphae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.