Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /θes̚saloníki/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θes̚saloníci/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θesaloníci/

Proper noun

Θεσσαλονῑ́κη • ‎(Thessalonī́kē) f ‎(genitive Θεσσαλονίκης); first declension

1. Thessaloniki, a city in Greece.
2. Thessalonica, daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander, all three of whom were kings of Macedonia at one point.

Inflection

Descendants

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2332”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• NA27

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη ‎(Thessaloníkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θesaloˈnici/
• Hyphenation: Θε‧σσα‧λο‧νί‧κη

Proper noun

Θεσσαλονίκη • ‎(Thessaloníki) f

1. Thessaloniki (second biggest city in Greece)

Declension

Derived terms

• Θεσσαλονικιός m ‎(Thessalonikiós, “male from Thessaloniki”)
• Θεσσαλονικέας m ‎(Thessalonikéas, “male from Thessaloniki”) (formal)
• Θεσσαλονικεύς m ‎(Thessalonikéfs, “male from Thessaloniki”) (formal, dated)
• Θεσσαλονικιά f ‎(Thessalonikiá, “female from Thessaloniki”)
• θεσσαλονικιώτικος ‎(thessalonikiótikos) (adjective)

Synonyms

• Σαλονίκη f ‎(Saloníki, “Salonica, Thessaloniki”) (colloquial)

Related terms

• συμπρωτεύουσα f ‎(symprotévousa, “second largest city, co-capital”) (often used to refer to Thessaloniki in Greece)

External links

• Θεσσαλονίκη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el