Attica

See also: attica

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀττική (Attikḗ).

Proper noun

Attica

1. A periphery where Athens, the capital of Greece, is located.
2. A peninsula southeast of Athens, Greece.
3. A town in Indiana and in New York State, USA.
4. The Attica Correctional Facility, scene of the Attica Prison riots

Translations

periphery

• Bulgarian: А́тика f (Átika)
• Catalan: Àtica
• Danish: Attika
• Dutch: Attica
• Finnish: Attika (fi)
• French: Attique (fr)
• Galician: Ática (gl) f
• German: Attika (de)
• Greek: Αττική (el) (Attikí)
• Hebrew: אטיקה‎ f (Atika)
• Irish: an Ataic f

• Italian: Attica f
• Japanese: アッティカ (Attika)
• Latin: Attica f
• Latvian: Atika f
• Polish: Attyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ática f
• Russian: А́ттика (ru) f (Áttika)
• Spanish: Ática (es) f
• Swedish: Attika
• Ukrainian: А́ттіка f (Áttika)

peninsula

• Finnish: Attikan niemimaa

• Irish: an Ataic f

See also

• Attic
• Central Greece
• Central Macedonia
• Crete
• East Macedonia and Thrace
• Epirus
• Ionian Islands
• North Aegean
• Peloponnese
• South Aegean
• Thessaly
• West Greece
• West Macedonia

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀττική (Attikḗ).

Proper noun

Attica f

1. Attica (a region of Greece)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Atticē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀττική (Attikḗ).

Proper noun

Attica f sg (genitive Atticae); first declension

1. Attica

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Attica
Genitive	Atticae
Dative	Atticae
Accusative	Atticam
Ablative	Atticā
Vocative	Attica

References

• Attica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Attica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Attica in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly