-ία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂. Cognate with Latin -ia.
Pronunciation
- (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
-ῐ́ᾱ • (-íā) 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
When this suffix is appended to verbal adjectives in -τός (-tós) or other stems in τ, the τ palatalizes to σ.
Example: ἄκρατος > ἀκρασία
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | -ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́αι -íai | ||||||||||
Genitive | -ῐ́ᾱς -íās |
-ῐ́αιν -íain |
-ῐῶν -iôn | ||||||||||
Dative | -ῐ́ᾳ -íāi |
-ῐ́αιν -íain |
-ῐ́αις -íais | ||||||||||
Accusative | -ῐ́ᾱν -íān |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱς -íās | ||||||||||
Vocative | -ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́ᾱ -íā |
-ῐ́αι -íai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- -ίνα (-ína)
Descendants
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6
Greek
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ία • (-ía) f
- added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
Declension
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- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
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- 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
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- Greek nouns declining like 'ιστορία'