Ὀλυμπία

See also: Ολυμπία and Ὀλύμπια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.lym.pí.aː/ → /o.lymˈpi.a/ → /o.limˈbi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.lym.pí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.limˈbi.a/

Proper noun

Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ • (Olumpíā) f (genitive Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Olympia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ hē Olumpíā
Genitive	τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς tês Olumpíās
Dative	τῇ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾳ têi Olumpíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱν tḕn Olumpíān
Vocative	Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ Olumpíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὀλύμπῐᾰ (Olúmpia)
• Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾰζε (Olumpíaze)
• Ὀλυμπῐᾰκός (Olumpiakós)
• Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς (Olumpiás)
• Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱσῐ (Olumpíāsi)
• Ὀλυμπῐκός (Olumpikós)
• Ὀλυμπῐονῑ́κης (Olumpionī́kēs)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أُولِيمْبِيَا (ʔūlīmbiyā)
• → Breton: Olimpia
• → Czech: Olympie
• → Danish: Olympia
• → Dutch: Olympia
• → English: Olympia
• → Estonian: Olümpia
• → Finnish: Olympia
• → French: Olympie
• → German: Olympia
• Greek: Ολυμπία (Olympía), Ολύμπια (Olýmpia)
• → Hebrew: אולימפיה (Olimpya)
• → Italian: Olimpia
• → Japanese: オリンピア (Orinpia)
• → Low German: Olympia
• → Luxembourgish: Olympia
• → Norwegian: Olympia
• → Persian: المپیا
• → Polish: Olimpia
• → Portuguese: Olímpia
• → Romanian: Olympia
• → Russian: Оли́мпия (Olímpija)
• → Slovene: Olimpija
• → Spanish: Olimpia
• → Swedish: Olympia
• → Turkish: Olimpiya
• → Ukrainian: Олімпія (Olimpija)
• → Vietnamese: Olympia

References

• “Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὀλυμπία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019