πολυγαμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολῠ́γᾰμος (polúgamos, “married to many”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from πολύς (polús, “many”) +‎ γᾰ́μος (gámos, “marriage”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɡa.mí.aː/ → /po.ly.ɣaˈmi.a/ → /po.li.ɣaˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɡa.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɡaˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɣaˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɣaˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.li.ɣaˈmi.a/

Noun

πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ • (polugamíā) f (genitive πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. polygamy

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ hē polugamíā	τὼ πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ polugamíā	αἱ πολῠγᾰμῐ́αι hai polugamíai
Genitive	τῆς πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱς tês polugamíās	τοῖν πολῠγᾰμῐ́αιν toîn polugamíain	τῶν πολῠγᾰμῐῶν tôn polugamiôn
Dative	τῇ πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾳ têi polugamíāi	τοῖν πολῠγᾰμῐ́αιν toîn polugamíain	ταῖς πολῠγᾰμῐ́αις taîs polugamíais
Accusative	τὴν πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱν tḕn polugamíān	τὼ πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ polugamíā	τᾱ̀ς πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s polugamíās
Vocative	πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ polugamíā	πολῠγᾰμῐ́ᾱ polugamíā	πολῠγᾰμῐ́αι polugamíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: polygamy
• → French: polygamie

Further reading

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