Ζάγκλη

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Thucydides states that the city was named for the Sicel word ζάγκλον (zánklon).

Ζᾰ́γκλη • (Zắnklē) f (genitive Ζᾰ́γκλης); first declension

Zancle (a city in Sicily; modern Messina)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.4.5:
  ὄνομα δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον Ζάγκλη ἦν ὑπὸ τῶν Σικελῶν κληθεῖσα, ὅτι δρεπανοειδὲς τὴν ἰδέαν τὸ χωρίον ἐστί (τὸ δὲ δρέπανον οἱ Σικελοὶ ζάγκλον καλοῦσιν)
  ónoma dè tò mèn prôton Zánklē ên hupò tôn Sikelôn klētheîsa, hóti drepanoeidès tḕn idéan tò khōríon estí (tò dè drépanon hoi Sikeloì zánklon kaloûsin)
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First declension of ἡ Ζᾰ́γκλη; τῆς Ζᾰ́γκλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ζᾰ́γκλη hē Zắnklē
Genitive	τῆς Ζᾰ́γκλης tês Zắnklēs
Dative	τῇ Ζᾰ́γκλῃ tēî Zắnklēi
Accusative	τὴν Ζᾰ́γκλην tḕn Zắnklēn
Vocative	Ζᾰ́γκλη Zắnklē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029