Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Μεσσήνη • ‎(Messḗnē) f ‎(genitive Μεσσήνης); first declension

1. Messene, Messenia, Greece
2. Messina, Sicily, Italy

Inflection

Derived terms

• Μεσσήνιος ‎(Messḗnios)
• Μεσσηνία ‎(Messēnía)
• Μεσσηνίς ‎(Messēnís)

Descendants

• Greek: Μεσσήνη ‎(Messíni)
• Italian: Messina; Messene
• Latin: Messana; Messene
• Sicilian: Missina

References

• Μεσσήνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017

1. ↑ Bennet, John (1998), "The Linear B Archives and the Kingdom of Nestor", in Davis, Jack L, Sandy Pylos: an Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 132–133