Ananke

See also: Ananké and ananke

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈnæŋki/

Proper noun

Ananke

1. (Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

   Coordinate term: Necessitas

   • 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:

     “‘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’——

2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.

Translations

Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate

• French: Ananké (fr) f
• German: Ananke f
• Greek: Ανάγκη (el) f (Anágki)
• Persian: آنانکی (ânânkê)
• Portuguese: Ananke f, Ananque f
• Spanish: Ananké f

German

Proper noun

Ananke f (proper noun, genitive Ananke)

1. (Greek mythology) Ananke
   • 1930, Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [Civilization and Its Discontents]‎^[1], Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 64:

     Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “Ananke” in Duden online
• “Ananke”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Ananque

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈnɐ̃.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈnɐ̃.kɨ/

Proper noun

Ananke f

1. (Greek mythology) Ananke (goddess of destiny, necessity and fate)