-ώνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

-ιώνη (-iṓnē)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ne/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni/

Suffix

-ώνη • (-ṓnē) f (genitive -ώνης); first declension

(poetic, rare)

Added to the names of people to form a feminine patronym: daughter of
‎Ζεύς [Δι-] (Zeús [Di-], “Zeus”) + ‎-ώνη (-ṓnē) → ‎Διώνη (Diṓnē, “Dione”, literally “daughter of Zeus”)

‎Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + ‎-ιώνη (-iṓnē) → ‎Καδμειώνη (Kadmeiṓnē, “daughter of Cadmus (Semele)”)

Declension

First declension of -ώνη; -ώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	-ώνη -ṓnē	-ώνᾱ -ṓnā	-ῶναι -ônai
Genitive	-ώνης -ṓnēs	-ώναιν -ṓnain	-ωνῶν -ōnôn
Dative	-ώνῃ -ṓnēi	-ώναιν -ṓnain	-ώναις -ṓnais
Accusative	-ώνην -ṓnēn	-ώνᾱ -ṓnā	-ώνᾱς -ṓnās
Vocative	-ώνη -ṓnē	-ώνᾱ -ṓnā	-ῶναι -ônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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Related terms

-ῑ́ων (-ī́ōn, masculine patronymic suffix)

Synonyms

-ῑ́νη (-ī́nē)

References

Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 845.6

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