Where does “Daphne” come from?
Daphne (Cebuano) comes from English daphne, from Translingual Daphne, from Ancient Greek Δάφνη, from Ancient Greek δάφνη, from Ancient Greek η, from Phoenician 𐤇, from Egyptian ?.
Daphne (Cebuano): a dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus
Definitions
- a dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus
Ancestry of “Daphne”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | daphne | Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus... |
| 2 | Translingual | Daphne | genus |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Δάφνη | Daphne |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | η | Lower-case eta, the seventh letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was ἦτα and it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel:. It is often transliterated as either e or i. It is preceded by ζ and followed by θ |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤇 | het; heth |
| 7 | Egyptian | ? | — |