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語源

From Latin athēniēnsis; compare 中期英語 Athenyensis pl and 古期英語 Athēniense pl. By surface analysis, Athens +‎ -ian.

発音

• IPA: /əˈθiː.ni.ən/
• 韻: -iːniən

名詞

Athenian (plural Athenians)

1. An inhabitant, resident, or citizen of Athens, Greece.
   • 1610, [Robert Glover], translated by Tho[mas] Milles et al., “Of the First Greeke Nobility”, in The Catalogue of Honor or Tresury of True Nobility, Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 4:

     Euen plaine Cittizens, hauing well deſerued of the Common-weale, were therefore among the Athenians ennobled.

   • 1872, William Lucas Collins, chapter V, in Aristophanes, page 101:

     Here the satire is directed against the passion of the Athenians for the excitement of the law-courts […]

形容詞

Athenian (not comparable)

1. Of or related to Athens, particularly (historical) ancient Athens, its empire, and its people.
2. (Greek mythology) Of or related to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, technology, and skillful warfare.

同意語

• (Of or related to Athens): Attic

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