Ἀρήτη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀράομαι (aráomai), thus ‘she who is prayed for’.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.rɛ̌ː.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈre̝.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈri.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈri.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈri.ti/
Proper noun
Ᾱ̓ρήτη • (Ārḗtē) f (genitive Ᾱ̓ρήτης); first declension
- Queen Arete, wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa.
Declension
Further reading
- “Ἀρήτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀρήτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Ἀρήτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἀρήτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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