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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
- IPA(key): /a.ri.á.dnɛː/ → /a.riˈa.ðni/ → /a.riˈa.ðni/
Proper noun
Ἀρῐάδνη • (Ariádnē) f (genitive Ἀρῐάδνης); first declension
- Ariadne
Inflection
Descendants
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