-θεν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰen/ → /θen/ → /θen/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰen/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰen/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θen/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θen/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θen/

Suffix

-θεν • (-then)

1. Added to nouns to form adverbs of place from which: from; also used, like genitive, with prepositions

Derived terms

Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -θεν

Further reading

• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 342
• “-θεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press