Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "Proserpina" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF PROSERPINA

Proserpina  [prəʊˈsɜːpɪnə] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSERPINA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proserpina is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROSERPINA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Proserpina

Proserpina

Proserpina or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were based on those of Greek Persephone and her mother Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and agriculture. The Romans identified Proserpina with their native fertility goddess Libera, daughter of the grain and agriculture goddess Ceres and wife to Liber. In 204 BC, a new "greek-style" cult to Ceres and Proserpina as "Mother and Maiden" was imported from southern Italy, along with Greek priestesses to serve it, and was installed in Ceres' Temple on Rome's Aventine Hill. The new cult and its priesthood were actively promoted by Rome's religious authorities as morally desirable for respectable Roman women, and may have partly subsumed the temple's older, native cult to Ceres, Liber and Libera; but the new rites seems to have functioned alongside the old, rather than replaced them. Just as Persephone was thought to be a daughter of Zeus, Romans made Proserpina a daughter of Zeus' Roman equivalent, Jupiter, god of the sky and weather, and head of Rome's official pantheon.

Definition of Proserpina in the English dictionary

The definition of Proserpina in the dictionary is the Roman goddess of the underworld Greek counterpart: Persephone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSERPINA


ana
ˈeɪnə
Carolina
ˌkærəˈlaɪnə
china
ˈtʃaɪnə
container
kənˈteɪnə
Dana
ˈdeɪnə
designer
dɪˈzaɪnə
dinner
ˈdɪnə
Freightliner
ˈfreɪtˌlaɪnə
inner
ˈɪnə
Kitchener
ˈkɪtʃɪnə
mina
ˈmaɪnə
minor
ˈmaɪnə
pinna
ˈpɪnə
pinner
ˈpɪnə
rana
ˈreɪnə
Regina
rɪˈdʒaɪnə
spinner
ˈspɪnə
spinor
ˈspɪnə
trainer
ˈtreɪnə
winner
ˈwɪnə

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSERPINA

Agrippina
Argentina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Christina
corvina
Filipina
Herzegovina
kina
Latina
marina
medina
North Carolina
philippina
piscina
retina
Santa Catarina
South Carolina
spina
tina
vagina

Synonyms and antonyms of Proserpina in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Proserpina» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF PROSERPINA

Find out the translation of Proserpina to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Proserpina from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Proserpina» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Proserpina
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Proserpina
570 millions of speakers

English

Proserpina
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Proserpina
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Proserpina
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Прозерпина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Proserpina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Proserpina
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Proserpine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proserpina
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Proserpina
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プロセルピーナ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

를 Proserpina
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Proserpina
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Proserpina
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Proserpina
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रॉसरपीना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Proserpina
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Proserpina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

proserpina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прозерпіна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Proserpina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Περσεφόνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Proserpina
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Proserpina
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Proserpina
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Proserpina

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSERPINA»

The term «Proserpina» is regularly used and occupies the 104.105 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
52
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «Proserpina» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of Proserpina
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Proserpina».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSERPINA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Proserpina» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Proserpina» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Proserpina

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSERPINA»

Discover the use of Proserpina in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Proserpina and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Proserpina:
Goethe's memories of his sister Cornelia, who had recently died in childbirth, were in fact the real catalyst: through this work Goethe could level accusations against his parents about Cornelia's marriage, of which he had not approved.
Carl Eberwein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, 2007
2
Proserpina, Ariadne Florentina and the Opening of the ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
John Ruskin, 2005
3
Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air Was ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
John Ruskin, 2013
4
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
John Ruskin, 2012
5
proserpina's promise
MERCURY. Personally, I never do anything I don't want to do. But I'm Mercury and you're Proserpina and in your case ... I don't know . . . PROSERPINA. There's no reason I can't take care of myself. I'm not a baby. Let me tell her that you'll look  ...
6
The Age of Rembrandt: Studies in Seventeenth-century Dutch ...
Such an astute reading of a text as that evidenced in the Proserpina is common in Rembrandt's biblical oeuvre.33 Rembrandt paid similarly close attention to a classical text in his grand Oath of Civilis of 1662. In this painting, which is based ...
Roland E. Fleischer, Susan Scott Munshower, Susan C. Scott, 1988
7
The Roman Goddess Ceres
In this period there are frequent literary allusions to the Eleusinian Mysteries and to the story of the Rape and Return of Proserpina, which was associated with these rites.149 In art, Ceres appears in the so-called Eleusinian triad, with ...
Barbette Stanley Spaeth, 1996
8
Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and ...
138). Prohibitions surround LaMotte, like the goddess, and one must approach her with care. Triple Goddesses: Demeter, Proserpina, and Hecate The epitome of motherhood in Greek myth is expressed in Demeter, or Ceres. She is intimately  ...
Gillian M. E. Alban, 2003
9
Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient ...
Proserpina: Visual. Rhetoric. from. Claudian. and. Scaliger. Rembrandt's renderings of myths have long been recognized as unusual.1 As a group, these paintings are unified by their deviation from pictorial precedent. The comparative textual ...
Amy Golahny, 2003
10
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
a reading of Proserpina rescatada arguing that the essence of the work is fragmentation as a way of being."' For this critic, Delfino and Proserpina offer opposing versions of the "modern" condition, he being practical and scientific, she ...
Raymond Leslie Williams, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSERPINA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Proserpina is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cinco socorristas de Cruz Roja vigilan los baños en Proserpina en …
Asimismo, Jesús López Santana ha señalado que en el lago Proserpina "afortunadamente" no ha habido ningún incidente "destacable" relacionado con el ... «Europa Press, Jul 15»
2
La vía desde la rotonda de Montijo hasta Proserpina ya está iluminada
El Ayuntamiento de Mérida informó ayer de que 120 luminarias, con tecnología LED, ya están iluminando la carretera de Proserpina, en concreto, los cuatro ... «El Periódico Extremadura, Jul 15»
3
La carretera de Proserpina estará iluminada en pocos días
En unos días, la carretera que comienza en la rotonda hacia Montijo y que finaliza en la entrada en la urbanización de Proserpina estrenará por fin su ... «Hoy Digital, Jul 15»
4
El verano se alía en Mérida con Proserpina
El embalse de Proserpina es uno de los enclaves más concurridos durante los ... un año más fieles a su encuentro de ocio y disfrute en el lago de Proserpina. «El Periódico Extremadura, Jul 15»
5
Protección Civil busca a un anciano desaparecido en Calamonte
... un Peugeot 307 color burdeos, que tenía un golpe en el lateral izquierdo y le faltaba el espejo izquierdo, en la rotonda de la charca de Proserpina de Mérida. «Hoy Digital, Jun 15»
6
El Ayuntamiento garantiza que Cruz Roja vigilará Proserpina
Asimismo, y a causa de la renuncia de su adjudicatario a seguir gestionando uno de los chiringuitos de Proserpina, el número 3, el gobierno local lo volverá a ... «Hoy Digital, Jun 15»
7
Parco urbano, il 18 aprile l'inaugurazione del giardino di Proserpina
Sarà inaugurata sabato 18 aprile, alle 17.30, nel parco urbano “Maggiore La Rosa” di Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, l'opera dell'artista giapponese Hidetoshi ... «24live.it, Apr 15»
8
Un incendio en un chiringuito del lago de Proserpina en Mérida …
Un incendio declarado este sábado en la cocina de uno de los chiringuitos del Lago de Proserpina, en Mérida, ubicado frente al Museo del Agua, se ha ... «20minutos.es, Apr 15»
9
Proserpina, con te se ne parte la Primavera
La leggenda, tanto cara alla mitologia romana, ha inizio in una splendida giornata di sole. La bellissima Proserpina stava raccogliendo fiori variopinti in ... «archeomolise, Apr 15»
10
Proserpina e la primula che preannuncia Primavera
Una famosa leggenda narra che la Primavera è il segno che sulla Terra ha fatto finalmente ritorno dagli inferi Proserpina, figlia di Madre Terra e sposa ... «Vesuvio Live, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Proserpina [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/proserpina>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z