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Σελήνη
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From σελήνη (selḗnē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.lɛ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈle̝.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈli.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈli.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈli.ni/
Proper noun
Σελήνη • (Selḗnē) f (genitive Σελήνης); first declension
Inflection
The personal name rarely takes a definite article.
Synonyms
- Μήνη (Mḗnē)
Derived terms
- σεληνιακός (selēniakós)
- σεληνιασμός (selēniasmós)
- σεληνολογία (selēnología)
- σεληνογραφία (selēnographía)
- σεληνόφως (selēnóphōs)
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Selene.html
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Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Σελήνη • (Selíni) f
- (astronomy, formal, literary, poetic) Moon (the earth's orbiting satellite)
- Synonym: (vernacular) φεγγάρι (fengári)
Declension
Related terms
- ασέληνος (asélinos, “moonless”, adjective)
- ημισέληνος f (imisélinos, “halfmoon”)
- σεληνάκατος f (selinákatos, “lunar module”)
Further reading
Σελήνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- Σελήνη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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