"Αθήνα" meaning in Greek

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Proper name

IPA: /aˈθina/ Audio: El-Αθήνα.ogg Forms: Athína [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], Αθήνα [nominative, singular], Αθήνας [genitive, singular], Αθήνα [accusative, singular], Αθήνα [singular, vocative]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai). Etymology templates: {{inh|el|grc|Ἀθῆναι}} Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai) Head templates: {{head|el|proper noun|||||||||||||||||||||||||||cat2=|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=|ts=}} Αθήνα • (Athína) f, {{el-noun-proper|f}} Αθήνα • (Athína) f Inflection templates: {{el-decl-noun-unc|Αθήνα|Αθήνας|Αθήνα|Αθήνα|note=}}
  1. Athens (the capital city of Greece) Categories (place): Cities in Greece, Places in Greece Related terms: Αθηνά (Athiná) (english: Athena) [feminine], Αθηναία (Athinaía) (english: female Athenian) [feminine], αθηναίικος (athinaíikos) (english: Athenian) [colloquial], Αθηναίισσα (Athinaíissa) (english: female Athenian) [colloquial, feminine], Αθηναϊκός (Athinaïkós) (english: Athinaikos football club), αθηναϊκός (athinaïkós) (english: Athenian), Αθηναίος (Athinaíos) (english: male Athenian) [masculine], Αθηνιώτης (Athiniótis) (english: male Athenian) [colloquial, masculine], Αθηνιώτισσα (Athiniótissa) (english: female Athenian) [colloquial, feminine], αθηνολάτρης (athinolátris) (english: Athens lover) [masculine]

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "Athinë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: Athinë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: Athinë"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "Athinã",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Aromanian: Athinã",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Aromanian: Athinã"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bg",
            "2": "Ати́на",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: Ати́на (Atína)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bulgarian: Ати́на (Atína)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mk",
            "2": "Атина",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Macedonian: Атина (Atina)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Macedonian: Атина (Atina)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ota",
            "2": "آتنه",
            "3": "آتینا",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr1": "atina",
            "tr2": "atina"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: آتنه (atina), آتینا (atina)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ottoman Turkish: آتنه (atina), آتینا (atina)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "Atina"
          },
          "expansion": "Turkish: Atina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Turkish: Atina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "Atína//Ати́на",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Atína /Ати́на",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Atína /Ати́на"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ἀθῆναι"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Athína",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "el-nF-α-2a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνας",
      "roman": "Athínas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "20": "",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Αθήνα • (Athína) f",
      "name": "el-noun-proper"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Α‧θή‧να"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Αθήνα",
        "2": "Αθήνας",
        "3": "Αθήνα",
        "4": "Αθήνα",
        "note": ""
      },
      "name": "el-decl-noun-unc"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greek",
  "lang_code": "el",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greek nouns declining like 'αγγλοκρατία'",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "el",
          "name": "Athens",
          "orig": "el:Athens",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "el",
          "name": "Cities in Greece",
          "orig": "el:Cities in Greece",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "el",
          "name": "National capitals",
          "orig": "el:National capitals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "el",
          "name": "Places in Greece",
          "orig": "el:Places in Greece",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
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            [
              2,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Athens is the capital city of Greece.",
          "roman": "I Athína eínai i protévousa tis Elládas.",
          "text": "Η Αθήνα είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_literal_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              24
            ]
          ],
          "english": "carry coals to Newcastle",
          "literal_meaning": "carry owls to Athens",
          "roman": "komízo gláfka eis Athínas",
          "text": "κομίζω γλαύκα εις Αθήνας",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Athens (the capital city of Greece)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Αθήνα-el-name-b~Iqgpce",
      "links": [
        [
          "Athens",
          "Athens#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "Greece",
          "Greece#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "Athena",
          "roman": "Athiná",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηνά"
        },
        {
          "english": "female Athenian",
          "roman": "Athinaía",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηναία"
        },
        {
          "english": "Athenian",
          "roman": "athinaíikos",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "αθηναίικος"
        },
        {
          "english": "female Athenian",
          "roman": "Athinaíissa",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηναίισσα"
        },
        {
          "english": "Athinaikos football club",
          "roman": "Athinaïkós",
          "word": "Αθηναϊκός"
        },
        {
          "english": "Athenian",
          "roman": "athinaïkós",
          "word": "αθηναϊκός"
        },
        {
          "english": "male Athenian",
          "roman": "Athinaíos",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηναίος"
        },
        {
          "english": "male Athenian",
          "roman": "Athiniótis",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηνιώτης"
        },
        {
          "english": "female Athenian",
          "roman": "Athiniótissa",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Αθηνιώτισσα"
        },
        {
          "english": "Athens lover",
          "roman": "athinolátris",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αθηνολάτρης"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "El-Αθήνα.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/aˈθina/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Αθήνα"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "Athinë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: Athinë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: Athinë"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "Athinã",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Aromanian: Athinã",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Aromanian: Athinã"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bg",
            "2": "Ати́на",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: Ати́на (Atína)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bulgarian: Ати́на (Atína)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mk",
            "2": "Атина",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Macedonian: Атина (Atina)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Macedonian: Атина (Atina)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ota",
            "2": "آتنه",
            "3": "آتینا",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr1": "atina",
            "tr2": "atina"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: آتنه (atina), آتینا (atina)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ottoman Turkish: آتنه (atina), آتینا (atina)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "Atina"
          },
          "expansion": "Turkish: Atina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Turkish: Atina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "Atína//Ати́на",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Atína /Ати́на",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Atína /Ати́на"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ἀθῆναι"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Athína",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "el-nF-α-2a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνας",
      "roman": "Athínas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Αθήνα",
      "roman": "Athína",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "20": "",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Αθήνα • (Athína) f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Αθήνα • (Athína) f",
      "name": "el-noun-proper"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Α‧θή‧να"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Αθήνα",
        "2": "Αθήνας",
        "3": "Αθήνα",
        "4": "Αθήνα",
        "note": ""
      },
      "name": "el-decl-noun-unc"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greek",
  "lang_code": "el",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "Athena",
      "roman": "Athiná",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηνά"
    },
    {
      "english": "female Athenian",
      "roman": "Athinaía",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηναία"
    },
    {
      "english": "Athenian",
      "roman": "athinaíikos",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "αθηναίικος"
    },
    {
      "english": "female Athenian",
      "roman": "Athinaíissa",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηναίισσα"
    },
    {
      "english": "Athinaikos football club",
      "roman": "Athinaïkós",
      "word": "Αθηναϊκός"
    },
    {
      "english": "Athenian",
      "roman": "athinaïkós",
      "word": "αθηναϊκός"
    },
    {
      "english": "male Athenian",
      "roman": "Athinaíos",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηναίος"
    },
    {
      "english": "male Athenian",
      "roman": "Athiniótis",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηνιώτης"
    },
    {
      "english": "female Athenian",
      "roman": "Athiniótissa",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Αθηνιώτισσα"
    },
    {
      "english": "Athens lover",
      "roman": "athinolátris",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αθηνολάτρης"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Greek feminine nouns",
        "Greek lemmas",
        "Greek nouns declining like 'αγγλοκρατία'",
        "Greek proper nouns",
        "Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek",
        "Greek terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "el:Athens",
        "el:Cities in Greece",
        "el:National capitals",
        "el:Places in Greece"
      ],
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        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Athens is the capital city of Greece.",
          "roman": "I Athína eínai i protévousa tis Elládas.",
          "text": "Η Αθήνα είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_literal_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              24
            ]
          ],
          "english": "carry coals to Newcastle",
          "literal_meaning": "carry owls to Athens",
          "roman": "komízo gláfka eis Athínas",
          "text": "κομίζω γλαύκα εις Αθήνας",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Athens (the capital city of Greece)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Athens",
          "Athens#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "Greece",
          "Greece#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "El-Αθήνα.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/El-%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/aˈθina/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Αθήνα"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.