Cleopatra

See also: Cleópatra and Cleòpatra

English

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Cleopatra (given name)

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Kleopatra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Cleopatra mandarin
• Cleopatra wig

Related terms

• Cleopas

Translations

a given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty

Albanian: Kleopatra Arabic: كْلِيوْبَاتْرَا f (kliwbātrā) Egyptian Arabic: كليوباترا (kliubātra, kilubatra) Armenian: Կլեոպատրա (hy) (Kleopatra) Old Armenian: Կղէոպատրա (Kłēopatra) Bulgarian: Клеопа́тра f (Kleopátra) Catalan: Cleòpatra (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 克萊奧帕特拉 / 克莱奥帕特拉 (Kèlái'àopàtèlā), 克婁巴特拉 / 克娄巴特拉 (zh) (Kèlóubātèlā) Coptic: ⲕⲗⲉⲟⲡⲁⲧⲣⲁ (kleopatra), ⲕⲗⲉⲩⲡⲁⲧⲣⲁ (kleupatra) Czech: Kleopatra f Danish: Kleopatra Esperanto: Kleopatra Faroese: Kleopatra f Finnish: Kleopatra French: Cléopâtre (fr) f Georgian: კლეოპატრა (ḳleoṗaṭra) German: Kleopatra (de) f Greek: Κλεοπάτρα (el) f (Kleopátra) Ancient: Κλεοπάτρα f (Kleopátra) Hungarian: Kleopátra (hu) Italian: Cleopatra (it) f Japanese: クレオパトラ (Kureopatora) Korean: 클레오파트라 (Keulle'opateura) Latin: Cleopatra Macedonian: Клеопатра (Kleopatra) Marathi: क्लिओपात्रा f (kliopātrā) Persian: کلئوپاترا (kle'opâtrâ) Polish: Kleopatra (pl) f Portuguese: Cleópatra f Romanian: Cleopatra Russian: Клеопа́тра (ru) f (Kleopátra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Клеопатра f Roman: Kleopatra f Slovak: Kleopatra f Slovene: Kleópatra (sl) f Spanish: Cleopatra f Thai: คลีโอพัตรา (Klii-oo-pát-dtraa) Turkish: Kleopatra Ukrainian: Клеопа́тра f (Kleopátra) Urdu: قلوپطرہ

Noun

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.
3. The Cleopatra butterfly (Gonepteryx cleopatra).

Anagrams

• acropetal

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Cleopatra f

1. Cleopatra

Anagrams

• Paracleto, percolata, placatore

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɫeˈɔ.pa.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kleˈɔː.pa.t̪ra]

Proper noun

Cleopatra f (genitive Cleopatrae); first declension

1. Cleopatra

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Cleopatra
genitive	Cleopatrae
dative	Cleopatrae
accusative	Cleopatram
ablative	Cleopatrā
vocative	Cleopatra

References

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

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Cleopatra

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kleoˈpatɾa/ [kle.oˈpa.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -atɾa
• Syllabification: Cle‧o‧pa‧tra

Proper noun

Cleopatra f

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