Ὀρτυγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄρτυξ (órtux, “quail”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.ty.ɡí.aː/ → /or.tyˈʝi.a/ → /or.tiˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.ty.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /or.tyˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.tyˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.tyˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.tiˈʝi.a/

Proper noun

Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ • (Ortugíā) f (genitive Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Ortygia, a small island in Syracuse

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ hē Ortugíā
Genitive	τῆς Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱς tês Ortugíās
Dative	τῇ Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾳ têi Ortugíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱν tḕn Ortugíān
Vocative	Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ Ortugíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Ortygia

Further reading

• “Ὀρτυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ὀρτυγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette