ὑπηρεσία

See also: υπηρεσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὑπηρετεία (hupēreteía)

Etymology

From ὑπηρέτης (hupērétēs, “rower; assistant, servant”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pɛː.re.sí.aː/ → /y.pi.reˈsi.a/ → /i.pi.reˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pɛː.re.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.pe̝.reˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.pi.reˈsi.a/

Noun

ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ • (hupēresíā) f (genitive ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. body or rowers, ship's crew
2. (in general) all kinds of service
3. (in the plural) class of servants or attendants

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hē hupēresíā	τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresíā	αἱ ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hai hupēresíai
Genitive	τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tês hupēresíās	τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresíain	τῶν ὑπηρεσῐῶν tôn hupēresiôn
Dative	τῇ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾳ têi hupēresíāi	τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresíain	ταῖς ὑπηρεσῐ́αις taîs hupēresíais
Accusative	τὴν ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱν tḕn hupēresíān	τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresíā	τᾱ̀ς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hupēresíās
Vocative	ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresíā	ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresíā	ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hupēresíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υπηρεσία (ypiresía)

Further reading

• “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑπηρεσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette