ἐλεγεία
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editEllipsis of ἐλεγεία ᾠδή (elegeía ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”), from ἐλεγεῖος (elegeîos, “elegiac”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “poem or song of lament”), perhaps from Phrygian.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.le.ɡěː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.leˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.leˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.leˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.leˈʝi.a/
Noun
editἐλεγείᾱ • (elegeíā) f (genitive ἐλεγείᾱς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐλεγείᾱ hē elegeíā |
τὼ ἐλεγείᾱ tṑ elegeíā |
αἱ ἐλεγεῖαι hai elegeîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐλεγείᾱς tês elegeíās |
τοῖν ἐλεγείαιν toîn elegeíain |
τῶν ἐλεγειῶν tôn elegeiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐλεγείᾳ têi elegeíāi |
τοῖν ἐλεγείαιν toîn elegeíain |
ταῖς ἐλεγείαις taîs elegeíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐλεγείᾱν tḕn elegeíān |
τὼ ἐλεγείᾱ tṑ elegeíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐλεγείᾱς tā̀s elegeíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐλεγείᾱ elegeíā |
ἐλεγείᾱ elegeíā |
ἐλεγεῖαι elegeîai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós)
- ἐλεγειδάριον (elegeidárion)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ἐλεγεία”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
edit- “ἐλεγεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλεγεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἐλεγεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλεγεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek ellipses
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Phrygian
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension