Athena

• Athene

Borrowed from Latin Athena, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

• enPR: ə-thēʹnə, IPA^(key): /əˈθiːnə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə

Athena

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.
2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

• (Eternal Virgin Goddesses): Minerva, Artemis/Diana, Hestia/Vesta

• Athena Polias
• Athens

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Athena (plural Athenas)

1. (feminism, derogatory, figurative) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.
   • 1989, Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger J. Woolger, The goddess within

     The last thing feminist Athenas see about corporate structures, government, or academia is that they are run by benevolent and all-protective fathers.

   • 1992, Marilyn Frye, Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992, page 141:

     The latter may become either Athenas or feminists. If one gets a certain sort of male sponsorship, becomes a Daddy's girl, one is allowed to function in these vocations of the righteous […]

   • 1995, Noretta Koertge (in Skeptical Inquirer, volume 19, number 2, page 42)

     Women who do decide to become scientists find themselves under attack from the self-proclaimed "echt" feminists, who call them "Athenas" and "Queen Bees."

• Anthea

• Athene

From Ancient Greek Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē), Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

• IPA^(key): [aˈtˢeːna]

Athena

1. (Greek mythology) Athena (the goddess)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ), Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈtʰeː.na/, [äˈt̪ʰeːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈte.na/, [äˈt̪ɛːnä]

Athēna f sg (genitive Athēnae); first declension

1. Athena (Greek goddess of wisdom)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Athēnae

• English: Athena
• Italian: Atena
• Sicilian: Atina

• Athena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Athena in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

Athena c (genitive Athenas)

1. (Greek mythology) Athena

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Borrowed from English Athena.

Athena

1. a female given name from English