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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παρθένιος (parthénios, “maidenly, virginal”), from παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden, virgin”), as the river was considered sacred to the virgin goddess Artemis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /par.tʰé.ni.os/ → /parˈθe.ni.os/ → /parˈθe.ni.os/
Proper noun
Παρθένῐος • (Parthénios) m (genitive Παρθενίου); second declension
- Bartın (a river in northern Turkey, that flows into the Black Sea)
Declension
Quotations
οἵ ῥα Κύτωρον ἔχον καὶ Σήσαμον ἀμφενέμοντο
ἀμφί τε Παρθένιον ποταμὸν κλυτὰ δώματ’ ἔναιον
Κρῶμνάν τ’ Αἰγιαλόν τε καὶ ὑψηλοὺς Ἐρυθίνους.
- Translation by Augustus Taber Murray
- These were they that held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, and had their famed dwellings around the river Parthenius and Cromna and Aegialus and lofty Erythini.
Descendants
Further reading
- “Παρθένιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Παρθένιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Παρθένιος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011