"Iphigenia" meaning in Latin

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Proper name

IPA: /iː.pʰi.ɡeˈniː.a/ [Classical-Latin], [iːpʰɪɡɛˈniːä] [Classical-Latin], /i.fi.d͡ʒeˈni.a/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ifid͡ʒeˈniːä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphĭgéneiă). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ}} Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphĭgéneiă) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Īphigenīa<1>|acc_sg=Īphigenīan|footnote=Greek type accusative in -an.}} Īphigenīa f sg (genitive Īphigenīae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Īphigenīa<1>|acc_sg=Īphigenīan|footnote=Greek type accusative in -an.}} Forms: Īphigenīa [canonical, feminine, singular], Īphigenīae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Īphigenīa [nominative, singular], Īphigenīae [genitive, singular], Īphigenīae [dative, singular], Īphigenīan [accusative, singular], Īphigenīā [ablative, singular], Īphigenīa [singular, vocative]
  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) Tags: declension-1
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