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Athens
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English
Etymology 1
From en enm Athens, from en fro Athenes, fro Atenes, from en la Athēnae p (acc. la Athēnās), from en grc Ἀθῆναι p, the plural form of grc Ἀθήνη Athena (q.v.), the goddess. More at en Athena. en Athina.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæθənz/
some US cities en /ˈeɪθənz/
en en-ca-Athens.opus CA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Athens.wav US
Proper noun
en Q1524en capital city c/Greece.
en Athina
en 1976 Lilian Hamilton Jeffery Lilian Hamilton Jeffery Kylon and Drakon Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c. New York, N.Y. St. Martin's Press St. Martin’s Press section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica) 86 https://archive.org/details/archaicgreece0000unse/page/86/mode/1up 75-10758 2168157 [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.
en metonym The Greek government.
en Several places in the <<c/USA>>:
en city/county seat co/Limestone County s/Alabama.
en unincorporated community co/Howard County s/Arkansas.
en large unincorporated community co/Los Angeles County s/California.
en sizable city/county seat co/Clarke County s/Georgia, consolidated with en Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
en city co/Menard County s/Illinois.
en unincorporated community/and/hamlet twp:Suf/Henry co/Fulton County s/Indiana.
en small unincorporated village outside of city/Lexington s/Kentucky.
en village par/Claiborne Parish s/Louisiana.
en town co/Somerset County s/Maine.
en village co/Calhoun County s/Michigan.
en unincorporated community co/Monroe County s/Mississippi.
en ghost town co/Clark County s/Missouri.
en former mining settlement/and/ghost town co/Nye County s/Nevada.
en town/and/village co/Greene County s/New York.
en city/county seat co/Athens County s/Ohio.
en borough co/Bradford County s/Pennsylvania.
en city/county seat co/McMinn County s/Tennessee.
en city/county seat co/Henderson County s/Texas.
en town co/Windham County s/Vermont.
en town co/Mercer County s/West Virginia.
en village co/Marathon County s/Wisconsin.
en township p/Ontario c/Canada.
Derived terms
en Athens County athenium Attic Athens of the North
Translations
capital city of Greece
Afrikaans: af Athene, af Atene
Akan: ak Atɛns
Albanian: sq Athina f, sq Athinë f indefinite
Arabic: ar أَثِينَا f
Egyptian Arabic: arz اتينا f ʔatīna, arz اثينا f ʔasīna
Hijazi Arabic: acw أثينا f ʔaṯīna
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܐܵܬܹܢܘܿܣ f ātēnos
Armenian: hy Աթենք
Aromanian: rup Athina f
Assamese: as এথেঞ্চ
Asturian: ast Atenes
Azerbaijani: az Afina
Basque: eu Atenas
Belarusian: be Афі́ны f-p, be Атэ́ны f-p Taraškevica
Bengali: bn অ্যাথেন্স
Bulgarian: bg Ати́на f
Burmese: my အေသင်မြို့, my အေသင်
Catalan: ca Atenes f
Cherokee: chr ᎡᏗᏂᏱ ediniyi
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 雅典 ngaa5 din2
Hokkien: nan-hbl 雅典 Ngá-tián / Ngée-tián
Mandarin: cmn 雅典 Yǎdiǎn
Chuvash: cv Афин
Coptic: cop Ⲁⲑⲏⲛⲁⲥ, cop Ⲁⲑⲏⲛⲁⲓ
Corsican: co Atene f, co Ateni f
Crimean Tatar: crh Atina
Czech: cs Atény f-p, cs Athény f-p
Danish: da Athen
Dutch: nl Athene n
Esperanto: eo Ateno ancient, eo Atenoj modern
Estonian: et Ateena
Farefare: gur Atena
Finnish: fi Ateena
French: fr Athènes p
Old French: fro Athenes
Galician: gl Atenas
Georgian: ka ათენი
German: de Athen n
Greek: el Αθήνα f
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀθῆναι f-p
Hawaiian: haw ʻAkenai
Hebrew: he אָתוּנָה f 'atúna
Hindi: hi एथेंस m
Hungarian: hu Athén
Icelandic: is Aþena f
Ido: io Athina
Indonesian: id Athena
Interlingua: ia Athenas
Irish: ga Aithin f An Aithin, ga Ataen f An Ataen, ga Cathair na hAithne f
Italian: it Atene f
Japanese: ja アテネ Atene
Kazakh: kk Афина
Khmer: km អាថែនស៍
Korean: ko ^아테네
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Atîna
Kyrgyz: ky Афины
Lao: lo ອາແຕນ, lo ເອເທນ, lo ອາແຖນ
Latin: la Athenae f-p
Latvian: lv Atēnas f-p
Lithuanian: lt Atė́nai m-p
Macedonian: mk Атина f
Malay: ms Athens
Maltese: mt Ateni
Marathi: mr एथंस
Middle English: enm Atenys
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Афин
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Aten, nb Athen
Nynorsk: nn Aten, nn Athen
Occitan: oc Atenas
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Аѳинꙑ f
Pashto: ps آتن m ātán, ps اتن m atán
Persian: fa آتن âten
Picard: pcd Atènes f, pcd Atène f
Plautdietsch: pdt Ateen n
Polish: pl Ateny p
Portuguese: pt Atenas f
Romanian: ro Atena f
Russian: ru Афи́ны f-p
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Atena
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ати́на f Bosnia, Serbia, sh Ате́на f Bosnia, Croatia
Latin: sh Atína f Bosnia, Serbia, sh Aténa f Bosnia, Croatia
Shan: shn ဢႃႇထိၼ်ႇ
Sicilian: scn Ateni f, scn Atini f
Slovak: sk Atény f-p
Slovene: sl Aténe f-p
Spanish: es Atenas f-p
Swahili: sw Athene
Swedish: sv Aten, sv Athen
Tagalog: tl Atenas
Tajik: tg Афина
Tatar: tt Афина, tt Афиннар
Thai: th เอเธนส์
Northern Thai: nod ᩋᩮᨵᩮᨶ᩠ᩈ᩺
Tibetan: bo ཨ་ཐེན
Turkish: tr Atina
Ottoman Turkish: ota آتینا Atina
Turkmen: tk Atina
Ukrainian: uk Афі́ни f-p, uk Ате́ни f-p
Urdu: ur ایتھنز m ethanz
Uzbek: uz Afina
Vietnamese: vi A-ten, vi Nhã Điển (vi 雅典), vi Á Thiên
Welsh: cy Athen
West Flemish: vls Athene n
Yakut: sah Атина
Yiddish: yi אַטען n
Zazaki: Southern Zazaki zza Atêna
Zulu: zu e-Athene
Etymology 2
Americanized form of en el Αθηναίος.
Proper noun
+
en Greek.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Athens is the 39717th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Athens is most common among White (93.85%) individuals.
Further reading
Anagrams
en aehnst Nathes thanes Hasten hasten sneath snathe Tehans Sneath Anthes
en eponyms exonyms
Malay
ms:
Etymology
ms en Athens
Pronunciation
a.tens
Proper noun
ms capital city c/Greece Athens
Middle English
Alternative forms
enm Atenes Atenys Athenes
Etymology
From enm fro Athenes, enm Atenes, from enm la Athēnae p (acc. la Athēnās), from enm grc Ἀθῆναι p, the plural form of grc Ἀθήνη Athena, the goddess. More at en Athena.
Proper noun
enm capital city c/Greece Athens
enm Lydg.TB (Aug A.4) 1.1752 c. 1425 (a. 1420) Þe grete worþi Dionisius, Whiche at Athens..Was called in scolis Aropagite [vr. the Ariapogite].
Descendants
en Athens