θαλασσοκρατία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ (thálassa, “sea”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-kratíā, “rule”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰa.las.so.kra.tí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰa.las.so.kraˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θa.las.so.kraˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θa.las.so.kraˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θa.la.so.kraˈti.a/
Noun
θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ • (thalassokratíā) f (genitive θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- empire of the sea
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ hē thalassokratíā | τὼ θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ tṑ thalassokratíā | αἱ θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́αι hai thalassokratíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tês thalassokratíās | τοῖν θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́αιν toîn thalassokratíain | τῶν θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐῶν tôn thalassokratiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾳ têi thalassokratíāi | θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́αιν thalassokratíain | ταῖς θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́αις taîs thalassokratíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱν tḕn thalassokratíān | θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ thalassokratíā | τᾱ̀ς θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thalassokratíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ thalassokratíā | θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ thalassokratíā | θᾰλᾰσσοκρᾰτῐ́αι thalassokratíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: thalassocracy
- → French: thalassocratie
- → Italian: talassocrazia
- → Russian: талассокра́тия (talassokrátija)
Further reading
- θαλασσοκρατία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θαλασσοκρατία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette