νηνία
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUnknown. It is supposed to be the origin of Latin nēnia (“dirge, elegy”). The word νηνίατον (nēníaton, “Phrygian tune for the flute”) is ascribed by Hipponax by Julius Pollux.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛː.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ne̝ˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈni.a/
Noun
editνηνῐ́ᾱ • (nēníā) f (genitive νηνῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νηνῐ́ᾱ hē nēníā |
τὼ νηνῐ́ᾱ tṑ nēníā |
αἱ νηνῐ́αι hai nēníai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νηνῐ́ᾱς tês nēníās |
τοῖν νηνῐ́αιν toîn nēníain |
τῶν νηνῐῶν tôn nēniôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νηνῐ́ᾳ têi nēníāi |
τοῖν νηνῐ́αιν toîn nēníain |
ταῖς νηνῐ́αις taîs nēníais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νηνῐ́ᾱν tḕn nēníān |
τὼ νηνῐ́ᾱ tṑ nēníā |
τᾱ̀ς νηνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s nēníās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νηνῐ́ᾱ nēníā |
νηνῐ́ᾱ nēníā |
νηνῐ́αι nēníai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Latin: nēnia
Further reading
edit- “νηνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νηνία 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
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