Thessalonica

Borrowed from Latin Thessalonīca, from Ancient Greek Θεσσᾰλονῑ́κη (Thessălonī́kē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessălós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field in Thessaly.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌθɛsələˈnaɪkə/

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Thessalonica

1. (now especially historical) Alternative form of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

• Thessalonican

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θεσσᾰλονῑ́κη (Thessălonī́kē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʰɛs.sa.ɫɔˈniː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪es.sa.loˈniː.ka]

Thessalonīca f sg (genitive Thessalonīcae); first declension

1. Thessaloniki (a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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