ἀνθιππασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀντι- (anti-, “one against another”) +‎ ἱππεύς (hippeús, “knight”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā), literally “knightly-contest”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tʰip.pa.sí.aː/ → /an.θip.paˈsi.a/ → /an.θi.paˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tʰip.pa.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /an.tʰip.paˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /an.θip.paˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /an.θip.paˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /an.θi.paˈsi.a/

Noun

ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ • (anthippasíā) f (genitive ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς); first declension

1. (historical) A traditional cavalry display in Ancient Athens; in particular, a series of contests occurring later in the democratic period as a contest between tribal cavalry units at Athenian festivals such as the Olympieia and Panathenaea.

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ; τῆς ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ hē anthippasíā	τὼ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ tṑ anthippasíā	αἱ ἀνθιππᾰσίαι hai anthippasíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς tês anthippasíās	τοῖν ἀνθιππᾰσίαιν toîn anthippasíain	τῶν ἀνθιππᾰσιῶν tôn anthippasiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾳ têi anthippasíāi	τοῖν ἀνθιππᾰσίαιν toîn anthippasíain	ταῖς ἀνθιππᾰσίαις taîs anthippasíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱν tḕn anthippasíān	τὼ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ tṑ anthippasíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς tā̀s anthippasíās
Vocative	ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ anthippasíā	ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ anthippasíā	ἀνθιππᾰσίαι anthippasíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: anthippasia

See also

• Olympieia
• Panathenaea

Further reading

• “ἀνθιππασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Xenophon Hipparchikos III.10-13 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0209%3Atext%3DCav.%3Achapter%3D3)
• http://pom.bbaw.de/ig/IG%20II_III%C2%B3%204,%20252