Athenian

• Athenean

From Latin athēniēnsis; compare Middle English Athenyensis pl and Old English Athēniense pl.^[1] By surface analysis, Athens +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /əˈθiː.ni.ən/

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• Rhymes: -iːniən

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 […]

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.

• (Of or related to Athens): Attic