-ία
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editLike -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂. Cognate with Latin -ia.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.a/
Suffix
edit-ῐ́ᾱ • (-ĭ́ā) f (genitive -ῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Added to stems of adjectives, rarely to the stems of verbs, and even more rarely to the stems of nouns, to form feminine abstract nouns
Usage notes
editWhen this suffix is appended to verbal adjectives in -τός (-tós) or other stems in τ, the τ palatalizes to σ.
Example: ἄκρατος > ἀκρασία
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | -ῐ́ᾱ -ĭ́ā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -ĭ́ā |
-ῐ́αι -ĭ́ai | ||||||||||
Genitive | -ῐ́ᾱς -ĭ́ās |
-ῐ́αιν -ĭ́ain |
-ῐῶν -ĭôn | ||||||||||
Dative | -ῐ́ᾳ -ĭ́āi |
-ῐ́αιν -ĭ́ain |
-ῐ́αις -ĭ́ais | ||||||||||
Accusative | -ῐ́ᾱν -ĭ́ān |
-ῐ́ᾱ -ĭ́ā |
-ῐ́ᾱς -ĭ́ās | ||||||||||
Vocative | -ῐ́ᾱ -ĭ́ā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -ĭ́ā |
-ῐ́αι -ĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- -ίνα (-ína)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6
Greek
editPronunciation
editSuffix
edit-ία • (-ía) f
- added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
Declension
editCategories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek suffixes
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek noun-forming suffixes
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek feminine suffixes
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek lemmas
- Greek suffixes
- Greek feminine suffixes
- Greek nouns declining like 'ιστορία'