Ἀθῆναι
See also: Αθήνα, Αθηνά, and Ἀθηνᾶ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Ἀθᾶναι (Athânai) – Doric
Etymology
Plural of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈtʰe̝.nɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.nɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ne/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈθi.ne/
Proper noun
Ἀθῆναι • (Athênai) f (genitive Ἀθηνῶν); first declension (plural only)
- Athens.
Usage notes
While the city name was plural from the Classical period onward, Homer also uses a singular form: Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē).
Inflection
First declension of αἱ Ἀθῆναι; τῶν Ἀθηνῶν (Attic)
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | αἱ Ἀθῆναι hai Athênai | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν Ἀθηνῶν tôn Athēnôn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ταῖς Ἀθήναις taîs Athḗnais | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τᾱ̀ς Ἀθήνᾱς tā̀s Athḗnās | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀθῆναι Athênai | ||||||||||||
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First declension of αἱ Ἀθῆναι; τῶν Ἀθηνέων (Ionic)
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | αἱ Ἀθῆναι hai Athênai | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν Ἀθηνέων / Ἀθηνῶν tôn Athēnéōn / Athēnôn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν Ἀθήνῃσῐ / Ἀθήνῃσῐν têisi(n) Athḗnēisi(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τᾱ̀ς Ἀθήνᾱς tā̀s Athḗnās | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀθῆναι Athênai | ||||||||||||
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First declension of Ἀθῆναι; Ἀθηνᾱ́ων (Epic)
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Ἀθῆναι Athênai | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | Ἀθηνᾱ́ων / Ἀθηνέ͜ων / Ἀθηνῶν Athēnā́ōn / Athēné͜ōn / Athēnôn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | Ἀθήνῃσῐ / Ἀθήνῃσῐν / Ἀθήνῃς / Ἀθήναις Athḗnēisi(n) / Athḗnēis / Athḗnais | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | Ἀθήνᾱς Athḗnās | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀθῆναι Athênai | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀθήναζε (Athḗnaze)
- Ἀθήναια (Athḗnaia)
- Ἀθηναῖος (Athēnaîos, “Athenian”)
- Ἀθηναϊσταί (Athēnaïstaí)
- Ἀθήνηθεν (Athḗnēthen)
- Ἀθήνησιν (Athḗnēsin)
- Ἀθηνιάω (Athēniáō)
- Ἀθηνόθεν (Athēnóthen)
Descendants
- Albanian: Athina
- Arabic: أَثِينَا (ʾaṯīnā)
- Armenian: Աթենք (Atʿenkʿ)
- Aromanian: Athena
- Azerbaijani: Afina
- Belarusian: Афіны (Afiny), Атэны (Ateny)
- Bulgarian: Атина (Atina)
- English: Athens
- French: Athènes
- German: Athen
- Greek: Αθήνα (Athína)
- Hebrew: אתונה (Atuna)
- Italian: Atene
- Latin: Athenae
- Japanese: アテネ (Atene)
- Macedonian: Атина (Atina)
- Persian: آتن (âten)
- Romanian: Atena
- Russian: Афины (Afiny)
- Serbo-Croatian: Атена, Atena
- Sicilian: Atini
- Turkish: Atina
- Ukrainian: Афіни (Afiny), Атени (Ateny)
- Venetian: Atene
References
- “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 (2006–2023)
- G116 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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