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Ἀθῆναι

First declension Noun; Feminine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀθῆναι Ἀθηνῶν

Structure: Ἀθην (Stem) + αι (Ending)

Sense

  1. the city of Athens

Declension

First declension
Plural
Nominative Ἀθῆναι
Genitive Ἀθηνῶν
Dative Ἀθήναις
Accusative Ἀθήνᾱς
Vocative Ἀθῆναι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀγνώσσεισ, ὅτι μᾶλλον ἀνάλκιδέσ εἰσιν Ἀθῆναι τοῖαι, κυδαλίμοισιν ἀγαλλόμεναι πολέμοισι, κεκριμένων μελέων οὔτ’ ἄρσενεσ οὔτε γυναῖκεσ; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1101)
  • πρὶν οὖν παντάπασιν ἀγριωθῆναι τὴν θάλασσαν, ὅσασ μὲν αὐτὸ τὸ χωρίον αἱ Ἀθῆναι δέξασθαι ἐδύναντο, ταύτασ αὐτοῦ ἐνεωλκήσαμεν, πλὴν τῆσ τριήρουσ· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 4 6:1)
  • καὶ ὅπερ σοι ἔφην μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, πάντα ἑώρακασ ἤδη Σόλωνα ἰδών, τοῦτο αἱ Ἀθῆναι, τοῦτο ἡ Ἑλλάσ· (Lucian, Scytha 15:1)
  • δοκεῖ μοι καὶ ὅτι Ἀθῆναι πόλισ ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ Κόρινθοσ ἐπὶ τῷ Ἰσθμῷ καὶ Σπάρτη ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ μὴ εἰδέναι. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 12:3)
  • ὦ ταὶ λιπαραὶ καὶ ἰοστέφανοι καὶ ἀριζήλωτοι Ἀθῆναι, δείξατε τὸν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ὑμῖν καὶ τῆσ γῆσ τῆσδε μόναρχον. (Aristotle, Choral, anapests13)

Synonyms

  1. the city of Athens

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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