Ἀθῆναι
Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Plural of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈtʰe.nɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.nɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ne/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ne/
Proper nounEdit
Ἀθῆναι • (Athênai) f pl (genitive Ἀθηνῶν); first declension
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | αἱ Ἀθῆναι hai Athênai |
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Genitive | τῶν Ἀθηνῶν tôn Athēnôn |
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Dative | ταῖς Ἀθήναις taîs Athḗnais |
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Accusative | τᾱ̀ς Ἀθήνᾱς tā̀s Athḗnās |
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Vocative | Ἀθῆναι Athênai |
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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
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