Ancient Greek

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

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

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

Proper noun

Μυτιλήνη • ‎(Mutilḗnē) f ‎(genitive Μυτιλήνης); first declension

1. Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

Inflection

Derived terms

• Μυτιληναῖος ‎(Mutilēnaîos)

Descendants

• Greek: Μυτιλήνη ‎(Mytilíni)
• Latin: Mytilene
• Turkish: Midilli (also means "Lesbos")

References

• Μυτιλήνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Μυτιλήνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μυτιλήνη ‎(Mutilḗnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mitiˈlini/
• Hyphenation: Μυ‧τι‧λή‧νη

Proper noun

Μυτιλήνη • ‎(Mytilíni) f

1. Mytilene (main town on the island of Lesbos)
2. (figuratively) Mytilene, Lesbos (third largest island in Greece)

Declension

Derived terms

• Μυτιληνιός m ‎(Mytiliniós, “male from Mytilene”)
• Μυτιληναίος m ‎(Mytilinaíos, “male from Mytilene”)
• Μυτιληνιά f ‎(Mytiliniá, “female from Mytilene”)
• Μυτιληναία f ‎(Mytilinaía, “female from Mytilene”)
• μυτιληναίικος ‎(mytilinaíikos) (adjective)
• μυτιληνιός ‎(mytiliniós) (adjective)

Synonyms

• Λέσβος f ‎(Lésvos, “Lesbos”)

External links

• Μυτιλήνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el