ἰτέα

See also: Itea and iteá

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis, with remodeling of the suffix like in other tree names (compare ἀκτέᾱ (aktéā, “elder (tree)”) and πτελέᾱ (pteléā, “elm”)).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.té.aː/ → /iˈte.a/ → /iˈte.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.té.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈte.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈte.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈte.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈte.a/

Noun

ῑ̓τέᾱ • (ītéā) f (genitive ῑ̓τέᾱς); first declension

1. willow

   Synonym: ἑλίκη (helíkē)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ῑ̓τέᾱ; τῆς ῑ̓τέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓τέᾱ hē ītéā	τὼ ῑ̓τέᾱ tṑ ītéā	αἱ ῑ̓τέαι hai ītéai
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓τέᾱς tês ītéās	τοῖν ῑ̓τέαιν toîn ītéain	τῶν ῑ̓τεῶν tôn īteôn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓τέᾳ têi ītéāi	τοῖν ῑ̓τέαιν toîn ītéain	ταῖς ῑ̓τέαις taîs ītéais
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̓τέᾱν tḕn ītéān	τὼ ῑ̓τέᾱ tṑ ītéā	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓τέᾱς tā̀s ītéās
Vocative	ῑ̓τέᾱ ītéā	ῑ̓τέᾱ ītéā	ῑ̓τέαι ītéai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰτέϊνος (itéïnos)

Descendants

• Greek: ιτιά (itiá)

Further reading

• “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰτέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • osier idem, page 580.
  • shield idem, page 765.
  • target idem, page 855.
  • wicker idem, page 978.
  • willow idem, page 980.