βρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Thracian *bria (“town”)

Noun

βρία • (bría) f (genitive βρίης); first declension

1. The Thracian word for city

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βρῐ́ᾰ; τῆς βρῐ́ης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βρῐ́ᾰ hē bría	τὼ βρῐ́ᾱ tṑ bríā	αἱ βρῐ́αι hai bríai
Genitive	τῆς βρῐ́ης tês bríēs	τοῖν βρῐ́αιν toîn bríain	τῶν βρῐῶν tôn briôn
Dative	τῇ βρῐ́ῃ têi bríēi	τοῖν βρῐ́αιν toîn bríain	ταῖς βρῐ́αις taîs bríais
Accusative	τὴν βρῐ́ᾰν tḕn brían	τὼ βρῐ́ᾱ tṑ bríā	τᾱ̀ς βρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s bríās
Vocative	βρῐ́ᾰ bría	βρῐ́ᾱ bríā	βρῐ́αι bríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Μεσημβρία (Mesēmbría)
• Πολτυμβρία (Poltumbría)
• Σηλυμβρία (Sēlumbría)
• Σκεδαβρια (Skedabria)

Further reading

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