Ἀριάδνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to scholars in classical Greece, from Cretan dialectal ἀρι- (ari-, “very”) +‎ ἀδνός (adnós, “holy, pure”).[1] Beekes, however, suggests a Pre-Greek Minoan origin.[2]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ri.á.dnɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.dne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/

Hyphenation: Ἀ‧ρι‧ά‧δνη

Proper noun

Ἀρῐάδνη • (Ariádnē) f (genitive Ἀρῐάδνης); first declension

Ariadne

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀριάδνη; τῆς Ἀριάδνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀριάδνη hē Ariádnē
Genitive	τῆς Ἀριάδνης tês Ariádnēs
Dative	τῇ Ἀριάδνῃ têi Ariádnēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀριάδνην tḕn Ariádnēn
Vocative	Ἀριάδνη Ariádnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Bulgarian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
Catalan: Ariadna
Coptic: ⲁⲣⲓⲁⲇⲛⲏ (ariadnē)
Czech: Ariadna
Danish: Ariadne
Dutch: Ariadne
English: Ariadne
Finnish: Ariadne
French: Ariane
German: Ariadne
Greek: Αριάδνη (Ariádni)
Hebrew: אריאדנה‎
Hungarian: Ariadné
Italian: Arianna
Japanese: アリアドネ (Ariadone)
Latin: Ariadna
Lithuanian: Ariadnė
Norwegian: Ariadne
Polish: Ariadna
Portuguese: Ariadne
Russian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
Slovene: Ariadna
Spanish: Ariadna
Swedish: Ariadne
Ukrainian: Аріадна (Ariadna)

References

Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130