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'''Berenice''' ({{langx|grc|Βερενίκη}}, ''Bereníkē'') is the [[ancient Macedonian language|Ancient Macedonian]] form of the [[Attic Greek]] name {{lang|grc|Φερενίκη}} ''Pherenikē'', which means "bearer of victory" {{etymology|grc|''φέρω'' (pherō)|to bear||''νίκη'' (nikē)|victory}}.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2319823 '''Berenike''', Liddell and Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus]</ref> Berenika, priestess of [[Demeter]] in [[Lete (Mygdonia)|Lete]] ca. 350 BC, is the oldest epigraphical evidence.<ref>Lete [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=153433&bookid=172&region=4&subregion=11 Epigraphical Database]</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Macedonian Institutions Under the Kings: A historical and epigraphic study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTRBAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Kentron Hellēnikēs kai Rōmaïkēs Archaiotētos|isbn=978-960-7094-90-2}}</ref> The Latin variant [[Veronica (name)|Veronica]] is the direct historical Western Catholic transliteration. The name also has the form [[Bernice (disambiguation)|Bernice]].
Many historical figures bear the name Berenice:
==Ancient world==
===Ptolemaic and Seleucid queens and royal daughters in Cyrenaica and Egypt===
* [[Berenice I of Egypt]] ({{circa|340 BC}} – between 279 and 268 BC), mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I of Egypt
* [[Berenice Syra]] ({{circa|275 BC}} – 246 BC), daughter of Ptolemy II of Egypt and wife of Seleucid monarch [[Antiochus II Theos]]
* [[Berenice II of Egypt]] (267 or 266 BC – 221 BC), daughter of Magas of Cyrene, wife of Ptolemy III of Egypt and traditional namesake of the constellation [[Coma Berenices]]
* [[Berenice III of Egypt]] (120–80 BC), daughter of Ptolemy IX of Egypt; she first married Ptolemy X of Egypt, and later Ptolemy XI of Egypt
* [[Berenice IV of Egypt]] (77–55 BC), daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and elder sister of Cleopatra VII
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* Berenice A, daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II
* Berenice B, probable daughter of Ptolemy VIII and wife of Pasherenptah (high priest of Ptah)
* Berenice C, great-great-granddaughter of Ptolemy VIII
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* [[Berenice (daughter of Ptolemy II of Telmessos)|Berenice]] (3rd to 2nd century BC), Greek princess and chief priestess of the Carian Satrapy, great-granddaughter of [[Ptolemy Epigonos]] and daughter of [[Ptolemy II of Telmessos|the third and final Ptolemaic Client King of Telmessos]].
===Judean princesses===
* [[Berenice (daughter of Salome)]] (1st century BC), daughter of [[Salome I]], a sister of [[Herod the Great]] and mother of [[Herod Agrippa]]
* [[Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa)|Berenice]] (28–?), a daughter of Herod Agrippa, wife of [[Herod of Chalcis]] until 48, then spent much of her life at the court of her brother, [[Herod Agrippa II]]
* [[Berenice (daughter of Mariamne)|Berenice]] (after 50–?), daughter of another daughter of Herod Agrippa I
===Saints===
* Berenice, also known as [[Saint Veronica]], 1st-century saint from Jerusalem
* [[Domnina, Berenice, and Prosdoce]], 4th-century Christian martyrs
===Others===
* [[Berenice (Oxyrhynchus)]], Roman Egyptian wine merchant
* [[Berenice of Chios]] (d. 72/71 BC), third wife of [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]]
* The daughter in the [[Exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter]], one of the [[miracles of Jesus]] recounted in the Christian  Gospels
==Modern era==
* [[Berenice Abbott]] (1898–1991), American photographer
* [[Bérénice Bejo]] (born 1976), French-Argentine actress
* [[Berenice Celeyta]], Colombian human rights activist
* [[Berenice Mallory]] (1901–1997), American home economist
* [[Bérénice Marlohe]] (born 1979), French actress
* [[Maé-Bérénice Méité]], French figure skater
* [[Bernice Slote]] (1913–1983), poet and Willa Cather scholar
* [[Berenice Wicki]] (born 2002), Swiss snowboarder
* [[Bernice Williams]], American blues singer
* [[Berenice Sydney]] (1944–1983), English artist
==References==
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==Sources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026231007/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0491.html Berenice] [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Berenice (princesses)|display=Berenice|volume=3|page=769}}
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