προκυμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προ- (pro-, “pro-”) +‎ κῦμᾰ (kûma, “wave”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pro.kyː.mí.aː/ → /pro.cyˈmi.a/ → /pro.ciˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pro.kyː.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pro.kyˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pro.cyˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pro.cyˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pro.ciˈmi.a/

Noun

προκῡμίᾱ • (prokūmíā) f (genitive προκῡμίᾱς); first declension

1. breakwater

Declension

First declension of ἡ προκῡμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς προκῡμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ προκῡμῐ́ᾱ hē prokūmíā	τὼ προκῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ prokūmíā	αἱ προκῡμῐ́αι hai prokūmíai
Genitive	τῆς προκῡμῐ́ᾱς tês prokūmíās	τοῖν προκῡμῐ́αιν toîn prokūmíain	τῶν προκῡμῐῶν tôn prokūmiôn
Dative	τῇ προκῡμῐ́ᾳ têi prokūmíāi	τοῖν προκῡμῐ́αιν toîn prokūmíain	ταῖς προκῡμῐ́αις taîs prokūmíais
Accusative	τὴν προκῡμῐ́ᾱν tḕn prokūmíān	τὼ προκῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ prokūmíā	τᾱ̀ς προκῡμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s prokūmíās
Vocative	προκῡμῐ́ᾱ prokūmíā	προκῡμῐ́ᾱ prokūmíā	προκῡμῐ́αι prokūmíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: προκυμαία (prokymaía)

Further reading

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