Παρθένιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παρθένιος (parthénios, “maidenly, virginal”), from παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden, virgin”), as the river was considered sacred to the virgin goddess Artemis.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /par.tʰé.ni.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /parˈtʰe.ni.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/

Proper noun

Παρθένῐος • (Parthénios) m (genitive Παρθενίου); second declension

Bartın (a river in northern Turkey, that flows into the Black Sea)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Παρθένῐος; τοῦ Παρθενῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Παρθένῐος ho Parthénios
Genitive	τοῦ Παρθενῐ́ου toû Partheníou
Dative	τῷ Παρθενῐ́ῳ tôi Partheníōi
Accusative	τὸν Παρθένῐον tòn Parthénion
Vocative	Παρθένῐε Parthénie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.854:

οἵ ῥα Κύτωρον ἔχον καὶ Σήσαμον ἀμφενέμοντο
ἀμφί τε Παρθένιον ποταμὸν κλυτὰ δώματ’ ἔναιον
Κρῶμνάν τ’ Αἰγιαλόν τε καὶ ὑψηλοὺς Ἐρυθίνους.

Translation by Augustus Taber Murray
These were they that held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, and had their famed dwellings around the river Parthenius and Cromna and Aegialus and lofty Erythini.

Descendants

→ Armenian: Պարթըն (Partʻən)
→ Latin: Parthenius
- → English: Parthenius
→ Russian: Парфений (Parfenij)
- → Romanian: Parfeni
→ Ottoman Turkish: بارطین (Bartın)
- Turkish: Bartın
  - → English: Bartın