Κύπρος

Etymology
A goddess name from the   /  which is attested as 🇨🇬 in a variant reading of  62, Aya 9, where  has a more archaic version, and.

The association of the island with the goddess resounds mythologically in king being the founder of Paphos and its fane of Aphrodite. Her very first temple was according to Herodotus I, 105 erected in by the Semitic Phoenicians. The very locality is known to be related to the goddess, identical to 🇨🇬 – recalling the idea of greatness, 🇨🇬.

The island taking its relevance from being the major source of copper during the Near East’s, the name of a local cult became associated—in no discernible order!—with the metal and with the island itself. It spread, notably to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, later.

Hence copper is connected and  through one symbol ♀ to the planet Venus, the interpretatio romana of Aphrodite, of repute as a Cyprian goddess, Cypria, Cypris.

Before that, a time is known where did not have the present name, in view of its division into kingdoms which usually served for more specific names; the  is just barely known in 🇨🇬 as  and 🇨🇬. Nonetheless 🇨🇬 attests the adjective.

To be kept apart from the word for the Mediterranean cypress  and the word for the plant henna   though it also colour in red (as copper does).

Etymology
, already with connections to for the island's copper mines at the time (see 🇨🇬) and an 🇨🇬 adjective. For more, see the etymology of ancient.

Pronunciation

 * Standard:

Proper noun

 * 1) Cyprus

Related terms
In the Cypriot dialect, alsto in Standard Modern Greek: