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Delphine Ayitey-Hammond
Delphine may refer to: * Delphine (given name), list of people with the feminine given name * Delphine (novel), ''Delphine'' (novel), an 1802 novel by Germaine de Staël * Delphine (1931 film), ''Delphine'' (1931 film), a 1931 French film directed by Roger Capellani * Delphine (2019 film), ''Delphine'' (2019 film), a 2019 Canadian film directed by Chloé Robichaud * SS Delphine (1921), SS ''Delphine'', a yacht built in 1921 by John and Horace Dodge * Delphine Records, a French record label founded in 1976 * Delphine Software International, a defunct game development company * Of or relating to dolphins * Moderate Tropical Storm Delphine, in the 1969–70 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season See also * Delphin (other) * Delphian (other) * Delphinine, an alkaloid * Delphyne, a mythological monster * Uterus didelphys, a uterine malformation {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Delphine (given Name)
Delphine is a feminine French language, Francophone given name, a form of the Latin Delphina, meaning ''woman from Delphi'', the "Navel of the Earth" or "Womb of Gaia", home of the Pythia, high priestess and oracle of the Temple of Apollo (Delphi), Temple of Apollo, the then most prestigious and authoritative oracle for the Ancient Greeks, and among the most powerful women of the classical world from 7th century BC until the late 4th century AD. Thus "Delphine" also means originally "''who or which pertains to the oracle''" i.e. provider of insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions. In modern language, it also means "''who or which pertains to the womb or the dolphin''", the Greek sanctuary location taking its own name from the words δελφύς delphús (womb) and δελφίς delphís (dolphin i.e "fish with a womb" which gave the latin ''delphinus''), thanks to an Apollonian and Dionysian, Appollonian myth about Zeus deciding on its location and travelling from Crete to es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |