Athens

English

Etymology

Old French Athenes, Atenes, from Latin Athēnae pl (acc. Athēnās), from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”), the goddess. More at Athena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæθənz/
• (some US cities): IPA^(key): /ˈeɪθənz/

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Proper noun

Athens

1. The capital city of Greece.
2. A city in Alabama, USA, and the county seat of Limestone County.
3. A city in Georgia, USA, consolidated with Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
4. A city in Illinois.
5. An unincorporated community hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana, USA.
6. A village in Louisiana.
7. A town in Maine.
8. A village in Michigan.
9. A town and village in New York.
10. A city in Ohio, and the county seat of Athens County.
11. A township in Ontario, Canada.
12. A borough in Pennsylvania.
13. A city in Tennessee, and the county seat of McMinn County.
14. A city in Texas, and the county seat of Henderson County.
15. A town in Vermont.
16. A town in West Virginia.
17. A village in Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Athens County

Translations

capital city of Greece

• Albanian: Athinë
• Arabic: أَثِينَا‎‎ f (ʾaṯīnā)

  Egyptian Arabic: اتينا‎‎ f (ʾatīna), اثينا‎‎ f (ʾasīna)

• Armenian: Աթենք (Atʿenkʿ)
• Aromanian: Athina f
• Assamese: এথেঞ্চ (etheñs)
• Asturian: Atenes
• Azerbaijani: Afina (az)
• Basque: Atenas (eu)
• Belarusian: Афі́ны f pl (Afíny), Атэ́ны f pl (Atény) (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bulgarian: Атина f (Atina)
• Catalan: Atenes f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雅典 (zh) (Yǎdiǎn)

• Chuvash: Афин (Afin)
• Crimean Tatar: Atina
• Czech: Atény (cs) f pl, Athény (cs) f pl
• Danish: Athen
• Dutch: Athene (nl)
• Esperanto: Ateno (eo)
• Estonian: Ateena (et)
• Finnish: Ateena (fi)
• French: Athènes (fr)

  Old French: Athenes

• Galician: Atenas (gl)
• Georgian: ათენი (ateni)
• German: Athen (de) n
• Greek: Αθήνα (el) f (Athína)

  Ancient: Ἀθῆναι f pl (Athênai)

• Hebrew: אָתוּנָה‎‎ f ('atuná)
• Hindi: एथेंस (ēthēns)
• Hungarian: Athén (hu)
• Icelandic: Aþena (is) f
• Ido: Athina (io)
• Interlingua: Athenas
• Irish: An Aithin f, An Ataen f, Cathair na hAithne f
• Italian: Atene (it) f
• Japanese: アテネ (Atene)
• Khmer: អាថែនស៍ (Aatʰaen)

• Korean: 아테네 (ko) (Atene)
• Latin: Athenae (la) f pl
• Latvian: Atēnas f pl
• Lithuanian: Atėnai
• Macedonian: Атина (mk) f (Atina)
• Maltese: Ateni
• Mongolian: Афин (Afin)
• Navajo: Atʼéena, Áthenz
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Aten, Athen

  Nynorsk: Aten, Athen

• Occitan: Atenas
• Old Church Slavonic: Аѳинꙑ (Aθiny)
• Ottoman Turkish: اتنه‎‎ (Atina)
• Persian: آتن‎‎ (fa) (âten)
• Polish: Ateny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Atenas (pt) f
• Romanian: Atena (ro) f
• Russian: Афи́ны (ru) f pl (Afíny)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Атина f, Атена f

  Roman: Atina f, Atena (sh) f

• Slovak: Atény f pl
• Slovene: Aténe (sl) f pl
• Spanish: Atenas (es) f pl
• Swahili: Athene
• Swedish: Aten (sv), Athen (sv)
• Tagalog: Atenas (tl)
• Tatar: Афиннар (Afinnar)
• Thai: เอเธนส์ (A-ten)
• Turkish: Atina (tr)
• Ukrainian: Афі́ни (uk) f (Afíny)
• Vietnamese: Athena
• Welsh: Athen
• Yakut: Атина (Atina)
• Yiddish: אַטען‎‎ (aten)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Atêna
• Zulu: e-Athene

Anagrams

• hasten, snathe, sneath, thanes