σπειραία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil, wreath”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), because of the shape of its follicles.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /speː.rǎi̯.aː/ → /spiˈrɛ.a/ → /spiˈre.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /speː.rǎi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /spiˈrɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /spiˈrɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /spiˈre.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /spiˈre.a/

Noun

σπειραίᾱ • (speiraíā) f (genitive σπειραίᾱς); first declension

1. privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σπειραίᾱ; τῆς σπειραίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σπειραίᾱ hē speiraíā	τὼ σπειραίᾱ tṑ speiraíā	αἱ σπειραῖαι hai speiraîai
Genitive	τῆς σπειραίᾱς tês speiraíās	τοῖν σπειραίαιν toîn speiraíain	τῶν σπειραιῶν tôn speiraiôn
Dative	τῇ σπειραίᾳ têi speiraíāi	τοῖν σπειραίαιν toîn speiraíain	ταῖς σπειραίαις taîs speiraíais
Accusative	τὴν σπειραίᾱν tḕn speiraíān	τὼ σπειραίᾱ tṑ speiraíā	τᾱ̀ς σπειραίᾱς tā̀s speiraíās
Vocative	σπειραίᾱ speiraíā	σπειραίᾱ speiraíā	σπειραῖαι speiraîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Spiraea

Further reading

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