Ἀριάδνη
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to scholars in classical Greece, from Cretan dialectal ἀρι- (ari-, “very”) + ἀδνός (adnós, “holy, pure”).[1] Beekes, however, suggests a Pre-Greek Minoan origin.[2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ri.á.dnɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.riˈa.dne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
- Hyphenation: Ἀ‧ρι‧ά‧δνη
Proper noun
Ἀρῐάδνη • (Ariádnē) f (genitive Ἀρῐάδνης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ἀριάδνη hē Ariádnē | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἀριάδνης tês Ariádnēs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἀριάδνῃ têi Ariádnēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἀριάδνην tḕn Ariádnēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀριάδνη Ariádnē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
- → Catalan: Ariadna
- → Coptic: ⲁⲣⲓⲁⲇⲛⲏ (ariadnē)
- → Czech: Ariadna
- → Danish: Ariadne
- → Dutch: Ariadne
- → English: Ariadne
- → Finnish: Ariadne
- → French: Ariane
- → German: Ariadne
- → Greek: Αριάδνη (Ariádni)
- → Hebrew: אריאדנה
- → Hungarian: Ariadné
- → Italian: Arianna
- → Japanese: アリアドネ (Ariadone)
- → Latin: Ariadna
- → Lithuanian: Ariadnė
- → Norwegian: Ariadne
- → Polish: Ariadna
- → Portuguese: Ariadne
- → Russian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
- → Slovene: Ariadna
- → Spanish: Ariadna
- → Swedish: Ariadne
- → Ukrainian: Аріадна (Ariadna)
References
- ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130
Further reading
- “Ἀριάδνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀριάδνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002