ithake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ithaca: an island of the Ionian Sea, Greece.
Example Sentences
- "Andreas Lekatsas from Ithake is recorded as the first of these Greeks to jump ship; he stayed in Australia for 20 years."
- "He [Odysseus] was the king of Ithake, the husband of Penelope and the father of Telemachos."
- "At the point where the Odyssey begins, Telemachos is about twenty and is sharing his absent father’s house on the island of Ithake with his mother, Penelope, […]"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἰθάκη (Ithákē).