Iphigenia

Iphigenia agr.-lat.

From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphigéneia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡeˈniː.a/, [iːpʰɪɡɛˈniːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.fi.d͡ʒeˈni.a/, [ifid͡ʒeˈniːä]

Proper noun

Īphigenīa f sg (genitive Īphigenīae); first declension

1. Iphigenia (a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who, because her father had killed, in Aulis, a hart belonging to Artemis, was to be offered up by way of expiation; but the goddess put a hart in her place and conveyed her to the Tauric Chersonese, where she became a priestess of Artemis, and with her brother Orestes carried off Artemis’s image)