-ία
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Like -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂. Cognate with Latin -ia and Proto-Slavic *-ьja.
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 Medieval) 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
[edit]When this suffix is appended to verbal adjectives in -τός (-tós) or other stems in τ, the τ assibiliates to σ.
Inflection
[edit]| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]References
[edit]- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6
Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ία • (-ía) f
- added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
Declension
[edit]Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- 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 derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek lemmas
- Greek suffixes
- Greek feminine suffixes
- Greek nouns declining like 'ιστορία'