Athens

Athens

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English Athens, from Old French Athenes, Atenes, from Latin Athēnae pl (acc. Athēnās), from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”), the goddess. More at Athena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæθənz/
• (some US cities): IPA^(key): /ˈeɪθənz/

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Proper noun

Athens

1. The capital city of Greece.
2. (metonymically) The Greek government.
3. A city, the county seat of Limestone County, Alabama, United States.
4. An unincorporatedcommunity in Howard County, Arkansas, United States.
5. A large unincorporatedcommunity in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
6. A sizable city, the county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, United States, consolidated with Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
7. A city in Menard County, Illinois.
8. An unincorporatedcommunity and hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana, United States.
9. A small unincorporated village outside of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
10. A village in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
11. A town in Somerset County, Maine.
12. A village in Calhoun County, Michigan.
13. An unincorporatedcommunity in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.
14. A ghost town in Clark County, Missouri, United States.
15. A former miningsettlement and ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
16. A town and village in Greene County, New York.
17. A city, the county seat of Athens County, Ohio.
18. A township in Ontario, Canada.
19. A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
20. A city, the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee.
21. A city, the county seat of Henderson County, Texas.
22. A town in Windham County, Vermont.
23. A town in Mercer County, West Virginia.
24. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Athens County

Translations

capital city of Greece

Akan: Atɛns Albanian: Athina (sq) f, Athinë f (indefinite) Arabic: أَثِينَا‎ f (ʾaṯīnā) Egyptian Arabic: اتينا‎ f (ʾatīna), اثينا‎ f (ʾasīna) Hijazi Arabic: أثينا‎ f (ʾaṯīna) Armenian: Աթենք (hy) (Atʿenkʿ) Aromanian: Athina f Assamese: এথেঞ্চ (etheñso) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܬܹܢܘܿܣ‎ f (ātēnos) Asturian: Atenes (ast) Azerbaijani: Afina (az) Basque: Atenas (eu) Belarusian: Афі́ны f pl (Afíny), Атэ́ны f pl (Atény) (Taraškevica) Bengali: অ্যাথেন্স (ôẏathens) Bulgarian: Ати́на f (Atína) Burmese: အေသင်မြို့ (esangmrui.), အေသင် (esang) Catalan: Atenes f Cherokee: ᎡᏗᏂᏱ (ediniyi) Chinese: Cantonese: 雅典 (ngaa5 din2) Mandarin: 雅典 (zh) (Yǎdiǎn) Min Nan: 雅典 (Ngá-tián / Ngée-tián) Chuvash: Афин (Afin) Corsican: Atene f, Ateni f Crimean Tatar: Atina Czech: Atény (cs) f pl, Athény (cs) f pl Danish: Athen Dutch: Athene (nl) n Esperanto: Ateno (eo) Estonian: Ateena (et) Farefare: Atena Finnish: Ateena (fi) French: Athènes (fr) pl Old French: Athenes Galician: Atenas (gl) Georgian: ათენი (ateni) German: Athen (de) n Greek: Αθήνα (el) f (Athína) Ancient: Ἀθῆναι f pl (Athênai) Hebrew: אָתוּנָה‎ (he) f ('atuná) Hindi: एथेंस m (ethens) Hungarian: Athén (hu) Icelandic: Aþena (is) f Ido: Athina (io) Indonesian: Athena Interlingua: Athenas (ia) Irish: An Aithin f, An Ataen f, Cathair na hAithne f Italian: Atene (it) f Japanese: アテネ (ja) (Atene) Kazakh: Афина (Afina) Khmer: អាថែនស៍ (ʼaathaen) Korean: 아테네 (ko) (Atene) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Atîna (ku) Kyrgyz: Афины (Afinı) Lao: ອາ​ແຕນ (ʼā tǣn), ເອເທນ (ʼē thēn), ອາແຖນ (lo) (ʼā thǣn) Latin: Athenae (la) f pl Latvian: Atēnas f pl Lithuanian: Atėnai m pl Macedonian: Атина (mk) f (Atina) Malay: Athens Maltese: Ateni Middle English: Atenys Mongolian: Cyrillic: Афин (Afin) Navajo: Atʼéena, Áthenz Norwegian: Bokmål: Aten, Athen Nynorsk: Aten, Athen Northern Thai: ᩋᩮᨵᩮᨶ᩠ᩈ᩺ (nod) Occitan: Atenas Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: Аѳинꙑ f (Aθiny) Ottoman Turkish: آتنه‎ (Atina) Pashto: آتن‎ m (ātán), اتن‎ m (atán) Persian: آتن‎ (fa) (âten) Picard: Atènes f, Atène f Plautdietsch: Ateen n Polish: Ateny (pl) pl Portuguese: Atenas (pt) f Romanian: Atena (ro) f Russian: Афи́ны (ru) f pl (Afíny) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ати́на f (Bosnia, Serbia), Ате́на f (Bosnia, Croatia) Roman: Atína f (Bosnia, Serbia), Aténa (sh) f (Bosnia, Croatia) Shan: ဢႃႇထိၼ်ႇ (shn) (ʼàa thìn) Sicilian: Ateni f, Atini f Slovak: Atény (sk) f pl Slovene: Aténe (sl) f pl Spanish: Atenas (es) f pl Swahili: Athene Swedish: Aten (sv), Athen (sv) Tagalog: Atenas (tl) Tajik: Афина (Afina) Tatar: Афина (Afina), Афиннар (Afinnar) Thai: เอเธนส์ (th) (ee-teen) Tibetan: ཨ་ཐེན (a then) Turkish: Atina (tr) Turkmen: Atina Ukrainian: Афі́ни (uk) f pl (Afíny), Ате́ни f pl (Atény) Urdu: ایتھنز‎ m (ethanz) Uzbek: Afina Vietnamese: A-ten, Nhã Điển (雅典), Á Thiên Welsh: Athen West Flemish: Athene n Yakut: Атина (Atina) Yiddish: אַטען‎ n (aten) Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Atêna Zulu: e-Athene

Etymology 2

Americanized form of Greek Αθηναίος (Athinaíos).

Proper noun

Athens (plural Athenses)

1. A surname from Greek.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Athens is the 39717^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Athens is most common among White (93.85%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Athens”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66.

Anagrams

• Nathes, Sneath, hasten, snathe, sneath, thanes

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• Atenes, Atenys, Athenes

Etymology

From Old French Athenes, Atenes, from Latin Athēnae pl (acc. Athēnās), from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”), the goddess. More at Athena.

Proper noun

Athens

1. Athens (the capital city of Greece)
   • c. 1425 (a. 1420), Lydg.TB (Aug A.4) 1.1752:

     Þe grete worþi Dionisius, Whiche at Athens..Was called in scolis Aropagite [vr. the Ariapogite].

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Descendants

• English: Athens