ὑπατεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὕπατος (húpatos, “consul”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pa.těː.aː/ → /y.paˈti.a/ → /i.paˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pa.těː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.paˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.paˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.paˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.paˈti.a/

Noun

ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ • (hupateíā) f (genitive ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱς); first declension

1. the office or rank of consul, consulate
2. (Byzantine) the consular largesse

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ; τῆς ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ hē hupateíā	τὼ ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ tṑ hupateíā	αἱ ῠ̔πᾰτεῖαι hai hupateîai
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱς tês hupateíās	τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰτείαιν toîn hupateíain	τῶν ῠ̔πᾰτειῶν tôn hupateiôn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔πᾰτείᾳ têi hupateíāi	τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰτείαιν toîn hupateíain	ταῖς ῠ̔πᾰτείαις taîs hupateíais
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱν tḕn hupateíān	τὼ ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ tṑ hupateíā	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱς tā̀s hupateíās
Vocative	ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ hupateíā	ῠ̔πᾰτείᾱ hupateíā	ῠ̔πᾰτεῖαι hupateîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὑπατεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑπατεία 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.
  • consulship idem, page 165.