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 - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
  2. Patrick Hanks and Kate Hardcastle, eds., Oxford Dictionary of First Names, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 154.
  3. Georgios Babiniotis (2002), “Αικατερίνη”, in Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of the New Greek Language] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias, →ISBN.
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