Ἀθῆναι

See also: Αθήνα, Αθηνά, and Ἀθηνᾶ

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• Ἀθᾶναι (Athânai) (Doric)

EtymologyEdit

Plural of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯/ → /aˈθi.nɛ/ → /aˈθi.ne/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈtʰe.nɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.nɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.ne/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈθi.ne/

Proper nounEdit

Ἀθῆναι • (Athênai) f pl (genitive Ἀθηνῶν); first declension

1. Athens.

InflectionEdit

First declension of αἱ Ἀθῆναι; τῶν Ἀθηνῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Ἀθῆναι hai Athênai
Genitive	τῶν Ἀθηνῶν tôn Athēnôn
Dative	ταῖς Ἀθήναις taîs Athḗnais
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Ἀθήνᾱς tā̀s Athḗnās
Vocative	Ἀθῆναι Athênai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Usage notesEdit

While the city name was plural from the Classical period onward, Homer also uses a singular form: Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē).

Derived termsEdit

• Ἀθήναζε (Athḗnaze)
• Ἀθήναια (Athḗnaia)
• Ἀθηναῖος (Athēnaîos, “Athenian”)
• Ἀθηναϊσταί (Athēnaïstaí)
• Ἀθήνηθεν (Athḗnēthen)
• Ἀθήνησιν (Athḗnēsin)
• Ἀθηνιάω (Athēniáō)
• Ἀθηνόθεν (Athēnóthen)

DescendantsEdit

• Albanian: Athina
• Arabic: أَثِينَا‎ (ʾaṯīnā)
• Armenian: Աթենք (Atʿenkʿ)
• Aromanian: Athena
• Azerbaijani: Afina
• Bulgarian: Атина (Atina)
• English: Athens
• French: Athènes
• German: Athen
• Greek: Αθήνα (Athína)
• Hebrew: אתונה‎ (Atuna)

• Italian: Atene
• Latin: Athenae
• Macedonian: Атина (Atina)
• Persian: آتن‎ (Aten)
• Romanian: Atena
• Russian: Афины (Afiny)
• Serbo-Croatian: Атена, Atena
• Sicilian: Ateni
• Turkish: Atina
• Ukrainian: Афіни (Afiny)
• Venetian: Atene

ReferencesEdit

• Ἀθῆναι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἀθῆναι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἀθῆναι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἀθῆναι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ἀθῆναι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2018)
• “G116”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
• Strong's Concordance number: G116
• entry in A Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell-Scott, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940