Παρθένιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παρθένιος (parthénios, “maidenly, virginal”), from παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden, virgin”), as the river was considered sacred to the virgin goddess Artemis.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /par.tʰé.ni.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /parˈtʰe.ni.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /parˈθe.ni.os/

Proper noun

Παρθένῐος • (Parthénĭos) m (genitive Παρθενίου); second declension

Bartın (a river in northern Turkey that flows into the Black Sea)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Παρθένῐος; τοῦ Παρθενῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Παρθένῐος ho Parthénĭos
Genitive	τοῦ Παρθενῐ́ου toû Parthenĭ́ou
Dative	τῷ Παρθενῐ́ῳ tōî Parthenĭ́ōi
Accusative	τὸν Παρθένῐον tòn Parthénĭon
Vocative	Παρθένῐε Parthénĭe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.854:

οἵ ῥα Κύτωρον ἔχον καὶ Σήσαμον ἀμφενέμοντο
ἀμφί τε Παρθένιον ποταμὸν κλυτὰ δώματ’ ἔναιον
Κρῶμνάν τ’ Αἰγιαλόν τε καὶ ὑψηλοὺς Ἐρυθίνους.

Translation by Augustus Taber Murray
These were they that held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, and had their famed dwellings around the river Parthenius and Cromna and Aegialus and lofty Erythini.

Descendants

→ Armenian: Պարթըն (Partʻən)
→ Latin: Parthenius
- → English: Parthenius
→ Russian: Парфений (Parfenij)
- → Romanian: Parfeni
→ Ottoman Turkish: بارطین (Bartın)
- Turkish: Bartın
  - → English: Bartın
  - → Chinese: 巴爾滕 / 巴尔滕 (Bā'ěrténg) (transliteration)