Κυδωνία

See also: κυδωνιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the Pre-Greek [Term?] source as Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀈𐀛𐀊 (ku-do-ni-ja), possibly a Phoenician variant of Classical Syriac ܟܶܬܳܢܳܐ‎ (kettānā, “flax”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱ • (Kudōníā) f (genitive Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

  1. Cydonia, Crete, Greece
  2. an epithet of the goddess Athena

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱ
hē Kudōníā
Genitive τῆς Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱς
tês Kudōníās
Dative τῇ Κῠδωνῐ́ᾳ
têi Kudōníāi
Accusative τὴν Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱν
tḕn Kudōníān
Vocative Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱ
Kudōníā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Κῠδώνῐος (Kudṓnios)

Descendants
  • Greek: Κυδωνία (Kydonía)
  • Latin: Cydōnia

References
  • “Κυδώνιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
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