Κυρήνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kyː.rɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /cyˈri.ni/ → /ciˈri.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kyː.rɛ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈre̝.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈri.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈri.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.ni/

Proper noun

Κῡρήνη • (Kūrḗnē) f (genitive Κῡρήνης); first declension

1. Cyrene, an ancient city in what is now Libya.
2. Cyrene or Kyrene, a character in Greek mythology.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Κῡρήνη; τῆς Κῡρήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κῡρήνη hē Kūrḗnē
Genitive	τῆς Κῡρήνης tês Kūrḗnēs
Dative	τῇ Κῡρήνῃ têi Kūrḗnēi
Accusative	τὴν Κῡρήνην tḕn Kūrḗnēn
Vocative	Κῡρήνη Kūrḗnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κῡρηνᾰϊκή (Kūrēnaïkḗ)
• Κῡρηνᾰϊκός (Kūrēnaïkós)
• Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos)

References

• “Κυρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κυρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2957 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN