Ἀθήνη
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See also: Ἀθήνῃ
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Ἀθάνα (Athána) — Doric
- Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ) — Attic
- Ἀθηναία (Athēnaía) — Poetic
- Ἀθάνα, Ἀσάνα (Athána, Asána) — Laconian
Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly from a lost Pre-Greek language.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈtʰe̝.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ni/
Proper noun
[edit]Ᾰ̓θήνη • (Athḗnē) f (genitive Ᾰ̓θήνης); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Only the singular forms are shown; for the plural forms, which refer to the city named after Athena, see Ἀθῆναι (Athênai).
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Ἀθήνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29
Further reading
[edit]- “Ἀθήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἀθήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἀθήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀθήνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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