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

a periphery

• Bulgarian: Атика f (Atika)
• 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)

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

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 (region of Greece)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Atticē

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀττική (Attikḗ).

Proper noun

Attica f (genitive Atticae); first declension

1. Attica

Declension

First declension.

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Attica in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly