Ἰθάκη

See also: Ιθάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain origin; first element possibly from a Phoenician [Term?] (“island”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ῐ̓θᾰ́κη • (Ithákē) f (genitive Ῐ̓θᾰ́κης); first declension

  1. Ithaca

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ῐ̓θᾰ́κη; τῆς Ῐ̓θᾰ́κης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ῐ̓θᾰ́κη
hē Ithákē
Genitive τῆς Ῐ̓θᾰ́κης
tês Ithákēs
Dative τῇ Ῐ̓θᾰ́κῃ
têi Ithákēi
Accusative τὴν Ῐ̓θᾰ́κην
tḕn Ithákēn
Vocative Ῐ̓θᾰ́κη
Ithákē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: Ithaca
  • French: Ithaque
  • Greek: Ιθάκη (Itháki)
  • Italian: Itaca
  • Latin: Ithaca
  • Russian: Итака (Itaka)

Further reading
  • “Ἰθάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἰθάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Ἰθάκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
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