Athena

See also: Athéna and Aþena

English

Athena

Alternative forms

• Athene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Athena, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ə-thēʹnə, IPA^(key): /əˈθiːnə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə

Proper noun

Athena

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.
2. A city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Coordinate terms

• (Eternal Virgin Goddesses): Minerva, Artemis/Diana, Hestia/Vesta

Derived terms

• Athena Polias
• Athens

Translations

Greek goddess

• Afrikaans: Athena, Atena
• Alemannic German: Athene f
• Arabic: آثِين f (ʔāṯīn)
• Armenian: Աթենաս (hy) (Atʻenas)
• Belarusian: Афіна f (Afina)
• Bulgarian: Атина f (Atina)
• Catalan: Atena f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雅典娜 (zh) (Yǎdiǎnnà)

• Czech: Athéna (cs) f
• Danish: Athene f, Pallas Athene, Pallas
• Dutch: Athene (nl) f
• Esperanto: Atena
• Estonian: Athena (et)
• Finnish: Athene
• French: Athéna (fr) f
• Galician: Atena f
• Georgian: ათენა (atena)
• German: Athene (de) f
• Greek: Αθηνά (el) f (Athiná)

  Ancient: Ἀθηνᾶ f (Athēnâ)

• Hindi: अथीना f (athīnā)
• Hungarian: Athéna, Athéné (hu)
• Indonesian: Athena
• Irish: Aitéiné f
• Italian: Atena (it) f
• Japanese: アテーナー (Atēnā)
• Korean: 아테나 (ko) (Atena)
• Latin: Athēna (la) f
• Latvian: Atēna f
• Limburgish: Athene (li) f
• Lithuanian: Atėnė f
• Luxembourgish: Athene f
• Macedonian: Атина (mk) f (Atina), Атена f (Atena)
• Marathi: अथीना f (athīnā)
• Norwegian: Athene (no) f
• Occitan: Atena f
• Persian: آتنا (fa) (âtenâ)
• Polish: Atena (pl) f
• Portuguese: Atena (pt) f
• Romanian: Atena (ro) f
• Russian: Афи́на (ru) f (Afína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ати́на f, Ате́на f

  Roman: Atína f, Aténa (sh) f

• Slovene: Aténa (sl) f
• Spanish: Atenea (es) f, Atena f
• Swahili: Athena
• Swedish: Athena (sv) f
• Turkish: Athena (tr)
• Ukrainian: Афіна f (Afina), Атена f (Atena)

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Noun

Athena (plural Athenas)

1. (feminism, derogatory, figurative) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.
   • 1989, Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger J. Woolger, The goddess within:

     The last thing feminist Athenas see about corporate structures, government, or academia is that they are run by benevolent and all-protective fathers.

   • 1992, Marilyn Frye, Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992, page 141:

     The latter may become either Athenas or feminists. If one gets a certain sort of male sponsorship, becomes a Daddy's girl, one is allowed to function in these vocations of the righteous […]

   • 1995, Noretta Koertge, Skeptical Inquirer, volume 19, number 2, page 42:

     Women who do decide to become scientists find themselves under attack from the self-proclaimed "echt" feminists, who call them "Athenas" and "Queen Bees."

Anagrams

• Anthea, Tenaha

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Atena

Proper noun

Athena

1. (Greek mythology) Athena

See also

• Athene

Danish

Alternative forms

• Athene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē), Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈtˢeːna]

Proper noun

Athena

1. (Greek mythology) Athena (the goddess)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ), Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈtʰeː.na/, [äˈt̪ʰeːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈte.na/, [äˈt̪ɛːnä]

Proper noun

Athēna f sg (genitive Athēnae); first declension

1. Athena (Greek goddess of wisdom)

Declension

The plural forms refer to the city that was named after the goddess, while the singular forms refer to the goddess herself.

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Athēna
genitive	Athēnae
dative	Athēnae
accusative	Athēnam
ablative	Athēnā
vocative	Athēna

Related terms

• Athēnae

Descendants

• English: Athena
• French: Athéna
• Italian: Atena
• Sicilian: Atina

References

• Athena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Athena in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Athena c (genitive Athenas)

1. (Greek mythology) Athena

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Athena.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈtina/ [ʔɐˈt̪iː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: A‧the‧na

Proper noun

Athena (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆᜒᜈ)

1. a female given name from English