Αἰκατερίνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Often said to be from Ἑκάτη (Hekátē, “Hecate”), though the Oxford Dictionary of First Names finds this unconvincing. Or, from Ἑκατερ(ός) (Hekater(ós))[1] + -ίνη (-ínē) from ἑκάτερος (hekáteros, “each of the two”).[2] An early folk etymology to καθαρός (katharós, “clean, pure”) resulted to Medieval Latin Katerina, Catharīna and descendants.[3]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Αἰκατερῑ́νη • (Aikaterī́nē) f (genitive Αἰκατερίνης); first declension (Koine)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine or Katharine

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Αἰκατερῑ́νη; τῆς Αἰκατερῑ́νης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Αἰκατερῑ́νη
hē Aikaterī́nē
Genitive τῆς Αἰκατερῑ́νης
tês Aikaterī́nēs
Dative τῇ Αἰκατερῑ́νῃ
têi Aikaterī́nēi
Accusative τὴν Αἰκατερῑ́νην
tḕn Aikaterī́nēn
Vocative Αἰκατερῑ́νη
Aikaterī́nē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
Borrowings

References

  1. “Ἑκατερός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
  2. Patrick Hanks and Kate Hardcastle, eds., Oxford Dictionary of First Names, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 154.
  3. Αικατερίνη - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias [Lexicology Centre], 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.
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