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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.kɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /myˈci.ni/ → /miˈci.ni/
Proper noun
Μῠκήνη • (Mukḗnē) f (genitive Μῠκήνης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Mycene (daughter of Inachus, king of Argos)
- Alternative form of Μυκῆναι (Mukênai, “Mycenae”)
Inflection
Further reading
- “Μυκήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Μυκήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Μυκήνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “Μυκήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press