σελήνη

See also: Σελήνη and σελίνι

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *selas-nā, whence also σέλας (sélas).

σελήνη • (selḗnē) f (genitive σελήνης); first declension

moon
- 93/94, Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 1, 31, in Henry St. John Thackeray (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 4 (Jewish Antiquities, books I–IV), LCL, pages 14-17. Translation by Thackeray.
  τῇ τετάρτῃ δὲ διακοσμεῖ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἄστροις κινήσεις αὐτοῖς ἐπιστείλας καὶ δρόμους, οἷς ἂν αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν περιφοραὶ σημαίνοιντο.
  têi tetártēi dè diakosmeî tòn ouranòn hēlíōi kaì selḗnēi kaì toîs állois ástrois kinḗseis autoîs episteílas kaì drómous, hoîs àn hai tôn hōrôn periphoraì sēmaínointo.
  On the fourth he adorned the heaven with sun and moon and the other stars, prescribing their motions and courses to indicate the revolutions of the seasons.
month
a moon-shaped cake
type of plant

First declension of ἡ σελήνη; τῆς σελήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σελήνη hē selḗnē	τὼ σελήνᾱ tṑ selḗnā	αἱ σελῆναι hai selênai
Genitive	τῆς σελήνης tês selḗnēs	τοῖν σελήναιν toîn selḗnain	τῶν σεληνῶν tôn selēnôn
Dative	τῇ σελήνῃ têi selḗnēi	τοῖν σελήναιν toîn selḗnain	ταῖς σελήναις taîs selḗnais
Accusative	τὴν σελήνην tḕn selḗnēn	τὼ σελήνᾱ tṑ selḗnā	τᾱ̀ς σελήνᾱς tā̀s selḗnās
Vocative	σελήνη selḗnē	σελήνᾱ selḗnā	σελῆναι selênai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

σελήνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σελήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
σελήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4582 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Moon idem, page 1017.
- Selene idem, page 1025.
- month idem, page 539.
- moon idem, page 540.
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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