-ία
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Like -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂. Cognate with Latin -ia.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
Suffix edit
-ῐ́ᾱ • (-íā) f (genitive -ῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Added to stems of adjectives, rarely to the stems of verbs, and even more rarely to the stems of nouns, to form feminine abstract nouns
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | -ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́αι -íai | ||||||||||
Genitive | -ῐ́ᾱς -íās |
-ῐ́αιν -íain |
-ῐῶν -iôn | ||||||||||
Dative | -ῐ́ᾳ -íāi |
-ῐ́αιν -íain |
-ῐ́αις -íais | ||||||||||
Accusative | -ῐ́ᾱν -íān |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱς -íās | ||||||||||
Vocative | -ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́αι -íai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- -ίνα (-ína)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6
Greek edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ία • (-ía) f
- added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country: