Berenice

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “bringer of victory”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Macedonian (compare the native word Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, to carry, to bring”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

Berenice f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Campanulaceae – endemic to Reunion.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Campanulaceae - family; Campanuloideae - subfamily

• (genus): Berenice arguta - sole accepted species

• Campanulaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Berenice on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Berenice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Berenice at The Plant List

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “bringer of victory”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Macedonian (compare the native word Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, to carry, to bring”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”). Doublet of Veronica.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɛɹəˈniːs/, /ˌbɛɹəˈniːsi/, /bɜɹˈniːs/, /ˌbɛɹəˈnaɪsi/

Berenice

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, notably of ancient queens of Egypt.

• Berenice's Hair
• Berenice's Locks

• Bernice
• Veronica

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “bringer of victory”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Macedonian (compare the native word Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, to carry, to bring”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

• IPA^(key): /be.reˈni.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Hyphenation: Be‧re‧nì‧ce

Berenice f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Berenice

• Bernīcē
• Beronīcē

From Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /be.reˈniː.keː/, [bɛrɛˈniːkeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.reˈni.t͡ʃe/, [bereˈniːt͡ʃe]

Berenīcē f sg (genitive Berenīcēs); first declension

1. A female name, famously held by:
   1. Berenice III of Egypt, queen of Egypt
   2. Berenice of Cilicia, a Jewish queen
2. A city upon the Red Sea founded by Ptolemy II
3. A city of Cyrenaica, now Benghazi
4. A city in Cilicia
5. A town of Arabia situated not far from Eilat

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Berenīcēus
• Berenīcis

• ⇒ Late Latin: Veronīca (see there for further descendants)
• → Basque: Berenize
• → Catalan: Berenice
• → Czech: Berenika
• → Dutch: Berenice
• → English: Berenice
• → Estonian: Berenike
• → Finnish: Berenike
• → French: Bérénice
  • → Wolof: Berenis
• → German: Berenike
• → Hungarian: Bereniké
• → Irish: Beirnicé
• → Italian: Berenice
• → Norwegian: Berenike
• → Occitan: Berenice
• → Polish: Berenika
• → Portuguese: Berenice
• → Russian: Вереника (Verenika)
• → Spanish: Berenice
• → Swedish: Berenike

• “Berenice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Berenice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Berenice”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Borrowed from Latin Berenīcē, from Ancient Greek Βερενῑ́κη (Berenī́kē). Doublet of Verônica.

Berenice f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Berenice