Ἀθῆναι

See also: Αθήνα, Αθηνά, and Ἀθηνᾶ

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Ancient GreekEdit

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Alternative formsEdit

• Ἀθᾶναι ‎(Athânai) (Doric)

EtymologyEdit

Plural of Ἀθήνη ‎(Athḗnē, “Athena”).

PronunciationEdit

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /atʰɛ́͜ɛnă͜ɪ̆/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /atʰéːnɛ/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /aθíne/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /aθíne/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /aθíne/

Proper nounEdit

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

1. Athens.

InflectionEdit

First declension of Ἀθήνη, Ἀθήνης

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ἀθήνη	αἱ Ἀθῆναι
Genitive	τῆς Ἀθήνης	τῶν Ἀθηνῶν
Dative	τῇ Ἀθήνῃ	ταῖς Ἀθήναις
Accusative	τὴν Ἀθήνην	τὰς Ἀθήνᾱς
Vocative	Ἀθήνη	Ἀθῆναι

Usage notesEdit

While the city name was plural from the Classical period onward, Homer 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
• Azeri: 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “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