Ἀριάδνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to scholars in classical Greece, from Cretan dialectal ἀρι- (ari-, “very”) +‎ ἀδνός (adnós, “holy, pure”).[1] Beekes, however, suggests a Pre-Greek Minoan origin.[2]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ri.á.dnɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.dne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.riˈa.ðni/

Hyphenation: Ἀ‧ρι‧ά‧δνη

Proper noun

Ἀρῐάδνη • (Ariádnē) f (genitive Ἀρῐάδνης); first declension

Ariadne

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀριάδνη; τῆς Ἀριάδνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀριάδνη hē Ariádnē
Genitive	τῆς Ἀριάδνης tês Ariádnēs
Dative	τῇ Ἀριάδνῃ têi Ariádnēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀριάδνην tḕn Ariádnēn
Vocative	Ἀριάδνη Ariádnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
→ Catalan: Ariadna
→ Coptic: ⲁⲣⲓⲁⲇⲛⲏ (ariadnē)
→ Czech: Ariadna
→ Danish: Ariadne
→ Dutch: Ariadne
→ English: Ariadne
→ Finnish: Ariadne
→ French: Ariane
→ German: Ariadne
→ Greek: Αριάδνη (Ariádni)
→ Hebrew: אריאדנה
→ Hungarian: Ariadné
→ Italian: Arianna
→ Japanese: アリアドネ (Ariadone)
→ Latin: Ariadna
→ Lithuanian: Ariadnė
→ Norwegian: Ariadne
→ Polish: Ariadna
→ Portuguese: Ariadne
→ Russian: Ариадна (Ariadna)
→ Slovene: Ariadna
→ Spanish: Ariadna
→ Swedish: Ariadne
→ Ukrainian: Аріадна (Ariadna)

References

Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130

“Ἀριάδνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Ἀριάδνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002

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[1] Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.

[2] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130