Δαλματία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Δαλμᾰτεῖς (Dalmateîs) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dal.ma.tí.aː/ → /ðal.maˈti.a/ → /ðal.maˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dal.ma.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /dal.maˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðal.maˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðal.maˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðal.maˈti.a/

Proper noun

Δαλματίᾱ • (Dalmatíā) f (genitive Δαλματίας); first declension

1. Dalmatia, a region on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱ hē Dalmatíā
Genitive	τῆς Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱς tês Dalmatíās
Dative	τῇ Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾳ têi Dalmatíāi
Accusative	τὴν Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱν tḕn Dalmatíān
Vocative	Δαλμᾰτῐ́ᾱ Dalmatíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Δαλμάται (Dalmátai)
• Δαλματῐκή (Dalmatikḗ)
• Δαλματῐκομαφόρτης (Dalmatikomaphórtēs)
• Δαλματῐκός (Dalmatikós)

Descendants

• Greek: Δαλματία (Dalmatía)
• Italian: Dalmazia
• Latin: Dalmatia

References

• “Δαλματεῖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Δαλματία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1149 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008