Σιθωνία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Σῑθών (Sīthṓn) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siː.tʰɔː.ní.aː/ → /si.θoˈni.a/ → /si.θoˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /siː.tʰɔː.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.tʰoˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.θoˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.θoˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.θoˈni.a/

Proper noun

Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱ • (Sīthōníā) f (genitive Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Sithonia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱ hē Sīthōníā
Genitive	τῆς Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱς tês Sīthōníās
Dative	τῇ Σῑθωνῐ́ᾳ têi Sīthōníāi
Accusative	τὴν Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn Sīthōníān
Vocative	Σῑθωνῐ́ᾱ Sīthōníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Σιθωνία (Sithonía)
• Latin: Sīthōnia

References

• “Σιθωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
• Σιθωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette