Atropatene

Borrowed from Latin Ātropatēnē or directly from Ancient Greek Ἀτροπατηνή (Atropatēnḗ), feminine of Ἀτροπατηνός (Atropatēnós), from Ἀτροπάτης (Atropátēs, “Atropates”) +‎ -ηνός (-ēnós).

• Atropatena

• IPA^(key): /ˌætrəpəˈtiːni/
• Rhymes: -iːni

Atropatene

2. (historical) An ancient kingdom established by the satrap Atropates in the 4th century BC in northern Media (roughly corresponding to the modern-day region of Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran); later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sasanian empires.

   Synonyms: Atropatia; Atropatian Media; Atropatene Media; Media Atropatena, Media Atropatene; (Old Persian name) Ātṛpātakāna; (Middle Persian name) Ādurbādagān

From Latin Atropatēnus, from Ancient Greek Ἀτροπατηνός (Atropatēnós), from Ἀτροπάτης (Atropátēs, “Atropates”) +‎ -ηνός (-ēnós). By surface analysis, Atropates +‎ -ene.

• IPA^(key): /ˌætɹəpəˈtiːn/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iːn

Atropatene (not comparable)

1. Synonym of Atropatian
   • 1980, Rivista storica dell'antichità‎^[1], page 118:

     […] and Atropatene kings.

Atropatene (plural Atropatenes)

1. Synonym of Atropatian
   • 1634, The Historie of the World, page 122:

     […] and as many from Ecbatana in Media, whereon ſome part the Atropatenes doe hold.

   • 1992, Journal of Ancient History‎^[2]:

     […] (the Atropatenes, the Albanians and the Adiabenes), […]

   • 2023, Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus, page 359:

     […] the Atropatenes (300–200 BCE), and the Caucasian Albanians (4th century), […]

• Atropatēna

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀτροπατηνή (Atropatēnḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aː.trɔ.paˈteː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.tro.paˈtɛː.ne]

Ātropatēnē f sg (genitive Ātropatēnēs); first declension

1. Atropatene (an ancient kingdom established by the satrap Atropates in the 4th century BC in northern Media (roughly corresponding to the modern-day region of Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran); later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sasanian empires.)

   Synonym: Atropatia

2. Azerbaijan (region in Iran)
3. (Contemporary Latin) Azerbaijan (country in the Caucasus)

   Synonyms: Azerbaigiania, (rare) Adrabigania

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), with locative, singular only.

• → English: Atropatene

• “Atropatene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Atropatene”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin Ātropatēnē.

Atropatene f

1. (historical) Atropatene (an ancient kingdom established by the satrap Atropates in the 4th century BC in northern Media (roughly corresponding to the modern-day region of Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran); later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sasanian empires.)