κονία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κονῐ́η (koníē) – Epic, Ionic
Etymology
From κόνις (kónis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈni.a/
Noun
κονῐ́ᾱ • (koníā) f (genitive κονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- dust, as stirred up by men's feet
- sand, soil
- (in the plural) ashes
- a fine powder, sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent
- powdered lime, plaster, stucco
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ hē koníā | αἱ κονῐ́αι hai koníai | |||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς tês koníās | τῶν κονῐῶν tôn koniôn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κονῐ́ᾳ têi koníāi | ταῖς κονῐ́αις taîs koníais | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κονῐ́ᾱν tḕn koníān | τᾱ̀ς κονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koníās | |||||||||||
Vocative | κονῐ́ᾱ koníā | κονῐ́αι koníai | |||||||||||
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References
- “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lye idem, page 506.
- powder idem, page 630.