γράα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From an Indo-Aryan word related to Sanskrit ग्रह (graha, “crocodile”, literally “seizing, holding, catching, receiving”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡrá.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.a/
Noun
γράᾱ • (gráā) f (genitive γράᾱς); first declension
- kind of water snake mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Inflection
First declension of ἡ γράᾱ; τῆς γράᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ γράᾱ hē gráā | τὼ γράᾱ tṑ gráā | αἱ γράαι hai gráai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς γράᾱς tês gráās | τοῖν γράαιν toîn gráain | τῶν γραῶν tôn graôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ γράᾳ têi gráāi | τοῖν γράαιν toîn gráain | ταῖς γράαις taîs gráais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν γράᾱν tḕn gráān | τὼ γράᾱ tṑ gráā | τᾱ̀ς γράᾱς tā̀s gráās | ||||||||||
Vocative | γράᾱ gráā | γράᾱ gráā | γράαι gráai | ||||||||||
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References
- “γράα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γράα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γράα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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