Ἱσπανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Spāníā), Ἑσπᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Hespāníā)

Etymology

From Latin Hispānia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /his.paː.ní.aː/ → /is.paˈni.a/ → /is.paˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /his.paː.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)is.paˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/

Proper noun

Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ • (Hispāníā) f (genitive Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Hispania (a peninsula in Southern Europe; modern Iberian Peninsula)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ hē Hispāníā
Genitive	τῆς Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱς tês Hispāníās
Dative	τῇ Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾳ têi Hispāníāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱν tḕn Hispāníān
Vocative	Ῐ̔σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ Hispāníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Ἱσπανός (Hispanós)

Descendants

• Greek: Ισπανία (Ispanía)
• → Old Georgian: სპანიაჲ (sṗaniay)
• ⇒ Georgian: ესპანეთი (esṗaneti)

Further reading

• “Ἱσπανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἱσπανία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press