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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of Ἀττικός (Attikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at.ti.kɛ̌ː/ → /at.tiˈci/ → /a.tiˈci/
Proper noun
Ἀττική • (Attikḗ) f (genitive Ἀττικῆς); first declension
- Attica.
Inflection
Derived terms
- ἀναττῐκός (anattikós, “alien to the Attic dialect”)
- ἀντιαττῐκιστής m (antiattikistḗs, “Anti-Atticist”)
- Ἀτθίς (Atthís)
- Ἀττῐικηρῶς - ἀττῐκηρῶς (attikērôs, “in Attic fashion”)
- Ἀττῐκῐ́ζω - ἀττῐκῐ́ζω (attikízō, “side with the Athenians, speak Attic, atticize”)
- Ἀττῐ́κισις - ἀττῐ́κισις f (attíkisis, “Attic style, Atticism”)
- Ἀττῐκισμός - ἀττῐκισμός m (attikismós, “siding with Athens; atticizing”)
- Ἀττῐκιστής - ἀττῐκιστής m (attikistḗs, “speaker of Attic; one who affects or collects Attic expressions”)
- Ἀττῐκιστί - ἀττῐκιστί (attikistí, “in the Attic dialect”)
- Ἀττῐκοπέρδιξ m (Attikopérdix, “Attic partridge, nickname of an actor”)
- Ἀττῐκός (Attikós)
- ἀττῐκόν ἅλας n (attikón hálas)
- Ἀττῐκουργής - ἀττῐκουργής (attikourgḗs, “wrought in Attic fashion”)
- Ἀττῐκωνῐκός m (Attikōnikós, “comic alteration of Ἀττῐκός, after Λακωνικός”)
- ἐξαττῐκίζω (exattikízō, “Atticize”)
- ἐναττῐκίζω (enattikízō, “in this place, just like in Attic”)
- Συραττῐκός (Surattikós, “Syro-Attic”)
- ὑπαττῐκός (hupattikós, “somewhat Attic”)
- ὑπεραττῐκίζω (huperattikízō, “imitate the Attic dialect to excess”)
- ὑπεραττῐκός (huperattikós, “excessively Attic”)
- χρυσαττῐκός (khrusattikós, “golden Attic”)
- ψευδαττῐκός (pseudattikós, “false Attic”)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἀττική”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ἀττική 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 1,003
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN