Ἀριάδνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ri.á.dnɛː/ → /a.riˈa.ðni/ → /a.riˈa.ðni/

• (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

1. 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

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)

Further reading

• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002