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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from a Pre-Greek substrate. Suggested connection with Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”), with dʰ > t through Siculan dialect. If so, then cognate with Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), Latin aestus (“hot”), aestās (“summer”), possibly aedis (“shrine, temple”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎi̯.tnɛː/ → /ˈɛ.tni/ → /ˈe.tni/
Proper noun
Αἴτνη • (Aítnē) f (genitive Αἴτνης); first declension
- (Anthroponym, Greek mythology) Aetna (Sicilian nymph), related to the homonymous place.
- (Toponym) Aetna (an ancient city in Sicily); Diodorus Siculus and Strabo write that Hiero conquered Κατάνη (Katánē) and deported its inhabitants to Λεοντῖνοι (Leontînoi), repopulating it with Greeks of Doric descent and changing its name to Aítnā.
- Mount Etna
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: Aetna (see there for more)
References
- Αἴτνη 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 1,010