Athens

English

Etymology

From Middle English Athens, from 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, the county seat of Limestone County, Alabama, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas, United States.
4. A large unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
5. A sizable city in Georgia, United States, consolidated with Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
6. A city in Menard County, Illinois.
7. An unincorporated community and hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana, United States.
8. A small unincorporated village outside of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
9. A village in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
10. A town in Somerset County, Maine.
11. A village in Calhoun County, Michigan.
12. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.
13. A ghost town in Clark County, Missouri, United States.
14. A former mining settlement and ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
15. A town and village in Greene County, New York.
16. A city, the county seat of Athens County, Ohio.
17. A township in Ontario, Canada.
18. A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
19. A city, the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee.
20. A city, the county seat of Henderson County, Texas.
21. A town in Windham County, Vermont.
22. A town in Mercer County, West Virginia.
23. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Athens County

Translations

capital city of Greece

• Akan: Atɛns
• Albanian: Athina (sq) f, Athinë f (indefinite)
• Arabic: أَثِينَا‎ f (ʾaṯīnā)

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

• Armenian: Աթենք (hy) (Atʿenkʿ)
• Aromanian: Athina f
• Assamese: এথেঞ্চ (etheñso)
• Asturian: Atenes (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Afina (az)
• Basque: Atenas (eu)
• Belarusian: Афі́ны f pl (Afíny), Атэ́ны f pl (Atény) (Taraškevica)
• Bengali: অ্যাথেন্স (ôjathenś)
• Bulgarian: Ати́на f (Atína)
• Burmese: အေသင်မြို့ (esangmrui.), အေသင် (esang)
• Catalan: Atenes f
• Cherokee: ᎡᏗᏂᏱ (ediniyi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雅典 (ngaa⁵ din²)

  Mandarin: 雅典 (zh) (Yǎdiǎn)

  Min Nan: 雅典 (Ngá-tián / Ngée-tián)

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

  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 (he) f ('atuná)
• Hindi: एथेंस m (ethens)
• Hungarian: Athén (hu)
• Icelandic: Aþena (is) f
• Ido: Athina (io)
• Indonesian: Athena
• Interlingua: Athenas (ia)
• Irish: An Aithin f, An Ataen f, Cathair na hAithne f
• Italian: Atene (it) f
• Japanese: アテネ (ja) (Atene)
• Kazakh: Афина (Afïna)
• Khmer: អាថែនស៍ (ʼaathaen)
• Korean: 아테네 (ko) (Atene)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Atîna (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Афины (Afinı)
• Lao: ອາ​ແຕນ (ʼā tǣn), ເອເທນ (ʼē thēn)
• Latin: Athenae (la) f pl
• Latvian: Atēnas f pl
• Lithuanian: Atėnai m pl
• Macedonian: Атина (mk) f (Atina)
• Malay: Athens
• Maltese: Ateni
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Афин (Afin)

• Navajo: Atʼéena, Áthenz
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Aten, Athen

  Nynorsk: Aten, Athen

• Occitan: Atenas
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Аѳинꙑ f (Aθiny)

• Ottoman Turkish: اتنه‎ (Atina)
• Pashto: آتن‎ m (ātán), اتن‎ m (atán)
• Persian: آتن‎ (fa) (âten)
• Picard: Atènes f, Atène f
• Plautdietsch: Ateen n
• Polish: Ateny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Atenas (pt) f
• Romanian: Atena (ro) f
• Russian: Афи́ны (ru) f pl (Afíny)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ати́на f (Bosnia, Serbia), Ате́на f (Bosnia, Croatia)

  Roman: Atína f (Bosnia, Serbia), Aténa (sh) f (Bosnia, Croatia)

• Sicilian: Ateni f, Atini f
• Slovak: Atény (sk) f pl
• Slovene: Aténe (sl) f pl
• Spanish: Atenas (es) f pl
• Swahili: Athene
• Swedish: Aten (sv), Athen (sv)
• Tagalog: Atenas (tl)
• Tajik: Афина (Afina)
• Tatar: Афина (Afina), Афиннар (Afinnar)
• Thai: เอเธนส์ (ee-teen)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཐེན (a then)
• Turkish: Atina (tr)
• Turkmen: Atina
• Ukrainian: Афі́ни (uk) f pl (Afíny), Ате́ни f pl (Atény)
• Urdu: ایتھنز‎ m (ethenz)
• Uzbek: Afina
• Vietnamese: A-ten, Nhã Điển (雅典), Á Thiên
• Welsh: Athen
• West Flemish: Athene n
• Yakut: Атина (Atina)
• Yiddish: אַטען‎ n (aten)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Atêna
• Zulu: e-Athene

Anagrams

• Nathes, Sneath, hasten, snathe, sneath, thanes

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• Athenes

Etymology

From 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.

Proper noun

Athens

1. Athens (the capital city of Greece)
   • c. 1425 (a. 1420), Lydg.TB (Aug A.4) 1.1752:

     Þe grete worþi Dionisius, Whiche at Athens..Was called in scolis Aropagite [vr. the Ariapogite].

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Descendants

• English: Athens