Φειά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰeː.ǎː/ → /ɸiˈa/ → /fiˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰeː.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈa/

Proper noun

Φειᾱ́ • (Pheiā́) f (genitive Φειᾶς); first declension

1. Pheia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Φειᾱ́; τῆς Φειᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φειᾱ́ hē Pheiā́
Genitive	τῆς Φειᾶς tês Pheiâs
Dative	τῇ Φειᾷ têi Pheiâi
Accusative	τὴν Φειᾱ́ν tḕn Pheiā́n
Vocative	Φειᾱ́ Pheiā́
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φειά (Feiá) (Feia)
• Latin: Pheia

References

• “Φειά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021