γεωδαισία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From γεω- (geō-, “earth”) +‎ δαίω (daíō, “to divide, share”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡe.ɔː.dai̯.sí.aː/ → /ʝe.o.ðɛˈsi.a/ → /ʝe.o.ðeˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡe.ɔː.dai̯.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡe.o.dɛˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ʝe.o.ðɛˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ʝe.o.ðeˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ʝe.o.ðeˈsi.a/

Noun

γεωδαισίᾱ • (geōdaisíā) f (genitive γεωδαισίᾱς); first declension

1. land-dividing
2. mensuration

Declension

First declension of ἡ γεωδαισῐ́ᾱ; τῆς γεωδαισῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ γεωδαισῐ́ᾱ hē geōdaisíā
Genitive	τῆς γεωδαισῐ́ᾱς tês geōdaisíās
Dative	τῇ γεωδαισῐ́ᾳ têi geōdaisíāi
Accusative	τὴν γεωδαισῐ́ᾱν tḕn geōdaisíān
Vocative	γεωδαισῐ́ᾱ geōdaisíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• γεωδαίστης (geōdaístēs)
• γεωδαιτέομαι (geōdaitéomai)

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: γεωδαισία (geodaisía)
• → Bulgarian: геоде́зия (geodézija)
• → Latin: geōdaesia
  • → Basque: geodesia
  • → Catalan: geodèsia (learned)
  • → Czech: geodézie
  • → Danish: geodæsi
  • → Estonian: geodeesia
  • → Finnish: geodesia
  • → French: géodésie (learned)
    • → Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا (jiyūdīsyā)
    • → Dutch: geodesie
      • → Indonesian: geodesi
    • → English: geodesy
    • → Persian: ژئودزی (že'odezi)
    • → Turkish: jeodezi, geodezi
  • → Galician: xeodesia (learned)
  • → German: Geodäsie
  • → Hungarian: geodézia
  • → Italian: geodesia (learned)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: geodesi
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: geodesi
  • → Polish: geodezja
  • → Portuguese: geodésia (learned)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: geodezija
  • → Slovak: geodézia
  • → Slovene: geodezȋja
  • → Spanish: geodesia (learned)
    • Tagalog: heodesya
  • → Swedish: geodesi
• → Russian: геоде́зия (geodɛ́zija)
  • → Armenian: գեոդեզիա (geodezia)
  • → Azerbaijani: geodeziya
  • → Georgian: გეოდეზია (geodezia)
  • → Kazakh: геодезия (geodeziä)
• → Zazaki: geodesi

Further reading

• γεωδαισία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γεωδαισία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “γεωδαισία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “γεωδαισία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Noun

γεωδαισία • (geodaisía) f (uncountable)

1. (geography, cartography) geodesy, geodetics

Declension

  γεωδαισία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	γεωδαισία •
genitive	γεωδαισίας •
accusative	γεωδαισία •
vocative	γεωδαισία •

Related terms

• γεωειδές n (geoeidés, “geoid”)
• γεωδαίτης m or f (geodaítis, “geodesist, cartographic surveyor”)
• γεωδαιτικός (geodaitikós, “geodetic”, adjective)

Further reading

• γεωδαισία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el