μανδύα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μανδύας (mandúas)
• μανδύη (mandúē)

Etymology

Unexplained foreign word: perhaps from Old Persian or from Illyrian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /man.dý.aː/ → /manˈdy.a/ → /manˈdi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /man.dý.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /manˈdy.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /manˈdy.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /manˈdy.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /manˈdi.a/

Noun

μανδύᾱ • (mandúā) f (genitive μανδύᾱς); first declension

1. woollen cloak

Declension

First declension of ἡ μανδύᾱ; τῆς μανδύᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μανδύᾱ hē mandúā	τὼ μανδύᾱ tṑ mandúā	αἱ μανδύαι hai mandúai
Genitive	τῆς μανδύᾱς tês mandúās	τοῖν μανδύαιν toîn mandúain	τῶν μανδυῶν tôn manduôn
Dative	τῇ μανδύᾳ têi mandúāi	τοῖν μανδύαιν toîn mandúain	ταῖς μανδύαις taîs mandúais
Accusative	τὴν μανδύᾱν tḕn mandúān	τὼ μανδύᾱ tṑ mandúā	τᾱ̀ς μανδύᾱς tā̀s mandúās
Vocative	μανδύᾱ mandúā	μανδύᾱ mandúā	μανδύαι mandúai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μανδυοειδής (manduoeidḗs)

Descendants

• Greek: μανδύας (mandýas)

Further reading

• “μανδύα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μανδύα 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