Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἀθᾶναι ‎(Athânai) (Doric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /aθíne/

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

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

Proper noun

Ἀθῆναι • ‎(Athênai) f pl ‎(genitive Ἀθηνῶν); first declension

1. Athens.

Inflection

Usage notes

While the city name was plural from the Classical period onward, Homer uses a singular form: Ἀθήνη ‎(Athḗnē).

Derived terms

• Ἀθήναζε ‎(Athḗnaze)
• Ἀθήναια ‎(Athḗnaia)
• Ἀθηναῖος ‎(Athēnaîos, “Athenian”)
• Ἀθηναϊσταί ‎(Athēnaïstaí)
• Ἀθήνηθεν ‎(Athḗnēthen)
• Ἀθήνησιν ‎(Athḗnēsin)
• Ἀθηνιάω ‎(Athēniáō)
• Ἀθηνόθεν ‎(Athēnóthen)

Descendants

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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G116”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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