Πιερία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Πῑ́ερες (Pī́eres, “Pierians”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /piː.e.rí.aː/ → /pi.eˈri.a/ → /pi.eˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /piː.e.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.eˈri.a/

Proper noun

Πῑερῐ́ᾱ • (Pīeríā) f (genitive Πῑερῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Pieria, Macedonia, Greece

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ hē Pīeríā
Genitive	τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς tês Pīeríās
Dative	τῇ Πῑερῐ́ᾳ têi Pīeríāi
Accusative	τὴν Πῑερῐ́ᾱν tḕn Pīeríān
Vocative	Πῑερῐ́ᾱ Pīeríā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πιερία (Piería)
• Latin: Pīeria

References

• “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022