βρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Thracian *bria (“town”)[1]
Noun
βρία • (bría) f (genitive βρίης); first declension
- The Thracian word for city
Inflection
First declension of ἡ βρῐ́ᾰ; τῆς βρῐ́ης (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βρῐ́ᾰ hē bría | τὼ βρῐ́ᾱ tṑ bríā | αἱ βρῐ́αι hai bríai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βρῐ́ης tês bríēs | τοῖν βρῐ́αιν toîn bríain | τῶν βρῐῶν tôn briôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βρῐ́ῃ têi bríēi | τοῖν βρῐ́αιν toîn bríain | ταῖς βρῐ́αις taîs bríais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βρῐ́ᾰν tḕn brían | τὼ βρῐ́ᾱ tṑ bríā | τᾱ̀ς βρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s bríās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βρῐ́ᾰ bría | βρῐ́ᾱ bríā | βρῐ́αι bríai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- Μεσημβρία (Mesēmbría)
- Πολτυμβρία (Poltumbría)
- Σηλυμβρία (Sēlumbría)
- Σκεδαβρια (Skedabria)
References
- Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker [The Language of the Thracians] (in German), Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, page 11
Further reading
- “βρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN