Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἀθάνα ‎(Athána) (Doric)
• Ἀθηνᾶ ‎(Athēnâ) (Attic)
• Ἀθηναία ‎(Athēnaía) (Poetic)
• Ἀσάνα ‎(Asána) (Doric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /aθíni/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aθíni/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aθíni/

Proper noun

Ἀθήνη • ‎(Athḗnē) f ‎(genitive Ἀθήνης); first declension

1. Athena
2. An older name for Athens

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἀθῆναι ‎(Athênai)

Descendants

• English: Athena
• Greek: Αθήνη ‎(Athíni)
• Latin: Athena

References

• Ἀθήνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἀθήνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἀθήνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «Ἀθήνη» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003

1. ↑ Günther Neumann, "Der lydische Name der Athena. Neulesung der lydischen Inschrift Nr. 40" Kadmos 6 (1967).