Μακεδονία
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- Μᾰκεδονῐ́η (Makedoníē) — Ionic
- Μᾰκηδονῐ́ᾱ (Makēdoníā)
Etymology
editFrom Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn, “Macedonian”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma.ke.doˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
Proper noun
editΜᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ • (Makedoníā) f (genitive Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ hē Makedoníā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς tês Makedoníās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾳ têi Makedoníāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱν tḕn Makedoníān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ Makedoníā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn)
- Μᾰκεδονῐκός (Makedonikós)
Descendants
editDescendants of Μακεδονία in other languages
- → Albanian: Maqedonia
- → Alemannic German: Makedonien
- → Arabic: مَقَدُونْيَا (maqadūnyā)
- → Armenian: Մակեդոնիա (Makedonia)
- → Aromanian: Machedonia
- → Asturian: Macedonia
- → Azerbaijani: Makedoniya
- → Basque: Mazedonia
- → Belarusian: Македонія (Makjedónija)
- → Breton: Makedonia
- → Bulgarian: Македония (Makedonija)
- → Catalan: Macedònia
- → Cebuano: Macedonia
- → Chuvash: Makedoni
- → Czech: Makedonie
- → Danish: Makedonien
- → Dutch: Macedonië
- → English: Macedonia
- → Estonian: Makedoonia
- → Faroese: Makedónia
- → Finnish: Makedonia
- → Franco-Provençal: Macèdonie
- → French: Macédoine
- → West Frisian: Masedoanje
- → Galician: Macedonia
- → Georgian: მაკედონია (maḳedonia)
- → German: Makedonien
- → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰 (makidōnja)
- Greek: Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
- → Haitian Creole: Masedoni
- → Hebrew: מקדוניה (Makedonya)
- → Hindi: मैसिडोनिया (maisiḍoniyā)
- → Hungarian: Macedónia
- → Icelandic: Makedónía
- → Indonesian: Makedonia
- → Italian: Macedonia
- → Japanese: マケドニア (Makedonia)
- → Low German: Makedonien
- → Kazakh: Македония (Makedoniä)
- → Korean: 마케도니아 (Makedonia)
- → Latin: Macedonia
- → Latvian: Maķedonija
- → Limburgish: Macedonië
- → Lithuanian: Makedonija
- → Macedonian: Македонија (Makedonija)
- → Malay: Macedonia
- → Manx: Yn Vasseydoan
- → Nepali: म्यासेडोनिया (myāseḍoniyā)
- → Northern Kurdish: Makedonya
- → Norwegian: Makedonia
- → Occitan: Macedònia
- → Pashto: مقدونيه
- → Persian: مقدونیه
- → Piedmontese: Macedònia
- → Polish: Macedonia
- → Portuguese: Macedónia
- → Quechua: Makidunya
- → Romanian: Macedonia
- → Romani: Makedoniya
- → Russian: Македония (Makedonija)
- → Northern Sami: Makedonia
- → Samogitian: Makedonėjė
- → Serbo-Croatian: Македонија, Makedonija
- → Sicilian: Macidonia
- → Slovak: Macedónsko
- → Slovene: Makedonija
- → Spanish: Macedonia
- → Swahili: Masedonia
- → Swedish: Makedonien
- → Tagalog: Masedonya
- → Turkish: Makedonya
- → Ukrainian: Македонія (Makedonija)
- → Upper Sorbian: Makedonska
- → Uzbek: Makedoniya
- → Võro: Makõdoonia
- → Welsh: Macedonia
- → Waray-Waray: Masedonya
Further reading
edit- “Μακεδονία”, 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
- G3109 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 1,016
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ (Makedoníā).
Proper noun
editΜακεδονία • (Makedonía) f
- Macedon, Macedonia (an ancient Greek kingdom in the north of the Greek peninsula, in the contemporary Balkans)
- Macedonia (an administrative region of Greece)
- Macedonia (a broader region of the Balkan peninsula, consisting of the administrative region of Macedonia in Greece, the country of North Macedonia and a bit of Bulgaria)
- (rare outside longer phrases) North Macedonia (a the country to the north of Greece, formerly known as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia of Yugoslavia) (see Usage notes)
- Synonym: Βόρεια Μακεδονία (Vóreia Makedonía)
- 1979, Giannēs Iōannidēs, Alekos Papapanagiōtou, "Αναμνήσεις" (Anamnēseis: provlēmata tēs politikēs tou KKE stēn ethnikē antistasē, 1940-1945) (Mémoires: problems of the Greek Communist Party policy during national Resistance 1940-1945), page 519 @books.google. (polytonic script):
- […] ἔφυγε ἀπό την ἕδρα τοῦ Γενικοῦ Στρατηγείου τοῦ ΛΑΣΓ στά τέλη τοῦ Όκτώβρη 1942 καί ἔφτασε στή Μακεδονία (Σκόπια) κατά τό Μάρτη τοῦ 1943.
- […] éphuge apó tēn hédra toû Genikoû Stratēgeíou toû LASG stá télē toû Óktṓbrē 1942 kaí éphtase stḗ Makedonía (Skópia) katá tó Mártē toû 1943.
- […] (he) left from the headquarters of LASG [People's Liberating Army of Yugoslavia] in the end of October 1942 and arrived at Macedonia (Skopje) approximately in March of 1943.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Μακεδονία.
Usage notes
edit- For the country "Republic of Macedonia" see "Macedonia naming dispute" on Wikipedia.) Expressions for the country in the 20th century included: Ομόσπονδη Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Omóspondi Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Federal Republic of Macedonia”), Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Laïkí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “People's Republic of Macedonia”), Σοσιαλιστική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Sosialistikí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Socialist Republic of Macedonia”), post-Yugoslav bare Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Republic of Macedonia”), and πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (próin Giougkoslavikí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)”).
Declension
edit Μακεδονία
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | Μακεδονία • |
genitive | Μακεδονίας • |
accusative | Μακεδονία • |
vocative | Μακεδονία • |
Related terms
edit- Βόρεια Μακεδονία f (Vóreia Makedonía, “North Macedonia”) (Republic of North Macedonia)
- Μακεδόνας m (Makedónas, “male Macedonian”)
- Μακεδονίτης m (Makedonítis, “male Macedonian”)
- Μακεδόνισσα f (Makedónissa, “female Macedonian”)
- Μακεδονίτισσα f (Makedonítissa, “female Macedonian”)
- μακεδονικός (makedonikós, “Macedonian”, adjective)
- μακεδονίτικος (makedonítikos, “Macedonian”, adjective)
- μακεδονομάχος m (makedonomáchos, “Macedonian warrior”)
- παμμακεδονικός (pammakedonikós, “pan-Macedonian”, adjective)
See also
editCategories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία
- Ancient Greek 5-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- grc:Historical polities
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek proper nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- el:Historical polities
- el:Places in Greece
- el:Regions of Greece
- el:Regions of North Macedonia
- el:Regions of Bulgaria
- el:Places in North Macedonia
- el:Places in Bulgaria
- Greek terms with rare senses
- Greek terms with quotations
- Greek nouns declining like 'αγγλοκρατία'