Σαμοθρᾴκη

See also: Σαμοθράκη

Ancient Greek

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Samothrace

Alternative forms

Σᾰμοθρηῐ̈́κη (Samothrēḯkē), Σᾰμοθρῄκη (Samothrḗikē) — Ionic

Etymology

From Σᾰ́μος (Sámos, “Samos, the other island whose people colonized Samothrace”) +‎ Θρᾴκη (Thrā́ikē, “Thrace, near which Samothrace is situated”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sa.mo.tʰráːi̯.kɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sa.moˈtʰra.ke̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sa.moˈθra.ci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sa.moˈθra.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sa.moˈθra.ci/

Proper noun

Σᾰμοθρᾴκη • (Samothrā́ikē) f (genitive Σᾰμοθρᾴκης); first declension

Samothrace, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Σᾰμοθρᾴκη; τῆς Σᾰμοθρᾴκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σᾰμοθρᾴκη hē Samothrā́ikē
Genitive	τῆς Σᾰμοθρᾴκης tês Samothrā́ikēs
Dative	τῇ Σᾰμοθρᾴκῃ têi Samothrā́ikēi
Accusative	τὴν Σᾰμοθρᾴκην tḕn Samothrā́ikēn
Vocative	Σᾰμοθρᾴκη Samothrā́ikē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Σᾰμόθρᾳξ (Samóthrāix)
Σᾰμοθρᾴκῐος (Samothrā́ikios)
Σᾰμοθρᾳκῐκός (Samothrāikikós)

Descendants

Bulgarian: Самотраки (Samotraki)
Greek: Σαμοθράκη (Samothráki)
Latin: Samothrācē
Turkish: Semadirek

References

“Σαμοθρᾴκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
G4543 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 1,024
Σαμοθρᾴκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette