Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proserpine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

Syllables
pros-er-pine
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.

name

A town in Whitsunday Region, Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.

Questions

What does proserpine mean?
Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”).

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