Ἀθήνη

See also: Ἀθήνῃ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἀθάνα (Athána) — Doric
• Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ) — Attic
• Ἀθηναία (Athēnaía) — Poetic
• Ἀθάνα, Ἀσάνα (Athána, Asána) — Laconian

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from a lost Pre-Greek language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /aˈθi.ni/ → /aˈθi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈtʰe̝.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.ni/

Proper noun

Ᾰ̓θήνη • (Athḗnē) f (genitive Ᾰ̓θήνης); first declension

1. Athena
2. An older name for Athens

Inflection

Only the singular forms are shown; for the plural forms, which refer to the city named after Athena, see Ἀθῆναι (Athênai).

First declension of ἡ Ᾰ̓θήνη; τῆς Ᾰ̓θήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ᾰ̓θήνη hē Athḗnē
Genitive	τῆς Ᾰ̓θήνης tês Athḗnēs
Dative	τῇ Ᾰ̓θήνῃ têi Athḗnēi
Accusative	τὴν Ᾰ̓θήνην tḕn Athḗnēn
Vocative	Ᾰ̓θήνη Athḗnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓θῆναι (Athênai)
• Ᾰ̓θηνᾰΐς (Athēnaḯs)

 

Descendants

• → English: Athena
• Greek: Αθήνη (Athíni)
• → Latin: Athēna
• → German: Athene
• → Polish: Atena

Further reading

• “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