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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Ananke en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /əˈnæŋki/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē, “Fate”).

Meanings

  1. (Greek) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.
    • “‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’—— 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:
  2. A moon of Jupiter.

Coordinates

Necessitas

Translations (7)

pt Ananke (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · fr Ananké (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · fa آنانکی (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · de Ananke (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · el Ανάγκη (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · es Ananké (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate) · pt Ananque (Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate)