ἐπωνυμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐπώνυμος (epṓnumos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pɔː.ny.mí.aː/ → /e.po.nyˈmi.a/ → /e.po.niˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pɔː.ny.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.po.nyˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.po.nyˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.po.nyˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.po.niˈmi.a/

Noun

ἐπωνῠμίᾱ • (epōnumíā) f (genitive ἐπωνῠμίᾱς); first declension

1. derived name, eponym
2. significant name
3. nickname
4. surname

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐπωνῠμίᾱ; τῆς ἐπωνῠμίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπωνῠμίᾱ hē epōnumíā	τὼ ἐπωνῠμίᾱ tṑ epōnumíā	αἱ ἐπωνῠμίαι hai epōnumíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπωνῠμίᾱς tês epōnumíās	τοῖν ἐπωνῠμίαιν toîn epōnumíain	τῶν ἐπωνῠμιῶν tôn epōnumiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπωνῠμίᾳ têi epōnumíāi	τοῖν ἐπωνῠμίαιν toîn epōnumíain	ταῖς ἐπωνῠμίαις taîs epōnumíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπωνῠμίᾱν tḕn epōnumíān	τὼ ἐπωνῠμίᾱ tṑ epōnumíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπωνῠμίᾱς tā̀s epōnumíās
Vocative	ἐπωνῠμίᾱ epōnumíā	ἐπωνῠμίᾱ epōnumíā	ἐπωνῠμίαι epōnumíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: επωνυμία (eponymía)

Further reading

• ἐπωνυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἐπωνυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nickname idem, page 558.
  • surname idem, page 844.