Μακεδονία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Μᾰκεδονῐ́η (Makedoníē) – Ionic
- Μᾰκηδονῐ́ᾱ (Makēdoníā)
Etymology
From Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn, “Macedonian”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma.ke.doˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
Proper noun
Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ • (Makedoníā) f (genitive Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Macedon; Macedonia
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ hē Makedoníā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς tês Makedoníās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾳ têi Makedoníāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱν tḕn Makedoníān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ Makedoníā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn)
- Μᾰκεδονῐκός (Makedonikós)
Descendants
Descendants of Μακεδονία in other languages
- → Albanian: Maqedonia
- → Alemannic German: Makedonien
- → Arabic: مَقَدُونْيَا (maqadūnyā)
- → Armenian: Մակեդոնիա (Makedonia)
- → Aromanian: Machedonia
- → Asturian: Macedonia
- → Azerbaijani: Makedoniya
- → Basque: Mazedonia
- → Belarusian: Македонія (Makjedónija)
- → Breton: Makedonia
- → Bulgarian: Македония (Makedonija)
- → Catalan: Macedònia
- → Cebuano: Macedonia
- → Chuvash: Makedoni (Makedoni)
- → Czech: Makedonie
- → Danish: Makedonien
- → Dutch: Macedonië
- → English: Macedonia
- → Estonian: Makedoonia
- → Faroese: Makedónia
- → Finnish: Makedonia
- → Franco-Provençal: Macèdonie
- → French: Macédoine
- → West Frisian: Masedoanje
- → Galician: Macedonia
- → Georgian: მაკედონია (maḳedonia)
- → German: Makedonien
- → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰 (makidōnja)
- Greek: Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
- → Haitian Creole: Masedoni
- → Hebrew: מקדוניה (Makedonya)
- → Hindi: मैसिडोनिया (maisiḍoniyā)
- → Hungarian: Macedónia
- → Icelandic: Makedónía
- → Indonesian: Makedonia
- → Italian: Macedonia
- → Japanese: マケドニア (Makedonia)
- → Low German: Makedonien
- → Kazakh: Македония (Makedoniä)
- → Korean: 마케도니아 (Makedonia)
- → Latin: Macedonia
- → Latvian: Maķedonija
- → Limburgish: Macedonië
- → Lithuanian: Makedonija
- → Macedonian: Македонија (Makedonija)
- → Malay: Macedonia
- → Manx: Yn Vasseydoan
- → Nepali: म्यासेडोनिया (myāseḍoniyā)
- → Northern Kurdish: Makedonya
- → Norwegian: Makedonia
- → Occitan: Macedònia
- → Pashto: مقدونيه
- → Persian: مقدونیه
- → Piedmontese: Macedònia
- → Polish: Macedonia
- → Portuguese: Macedónia
- → Quechua: Makidunya
- → Romanian: Macedonia
- → Romani: Makedoniya
- → Russian: Македония (Makedonija)
- → Northern Sami: Makedonia
- → Samogitian: Makedonėjė
- → Serbo-Croatian: Македонија, Makedonija
- → Sicilian: Macidonia
- → Slovak: Macedónsko
- → Slovene: Makedonija
- → Spanish: Macedonia
- → Swahili: Masedonia
- → Swedish: Makedonien
- → Tagalog: Masedonya
- → Turkish: Makedonya
- → Ukrainian: Македонія (Makedonija)
- → Upper Sorbian: Makedonska
- → Uzbek: Makedoniya
- → Võro: Makõdoonia
- → Welsh: Macedonia
- → Waray-Waray: Masedonya
Further reading
- “Μακεδονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
- Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ (Makedoníā).
Proper noun
Μακεδονία • (Makedonía) f
- Macedon, Macedonia, an ancient kingdom situated in the contemporary Balkans
- (political division) Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece
- (geography) Macedonia, a broader region of the Balkan peninsula which includes the Greek region of Macedonia, North Macedonia and a bit of Bulgaria
- (rare outside longer phrases) Macedonia, the country to the north of Greece: Βόρεια Μακεδονία (North Macedonia) formerly known as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia of Yugoslavia (see Usage notes)
- 1979, Giannēs Iōannidēs, Alekos Papapanagiōtou, "Αναμνήσεις" (Anamnēseis: provlēmata tēs politikēs tou KKE stēn ethnikē antistasē, 1940-1945) (Mémoires: problems of the Greek Communist Party policy during national Resistance 1940-1945), page 519 @books.google. (polytonic script):
- […] ἔφυγε ἀπό την ἕδρα τοῦ Γενικοῦ Στρατηγείου τοῦ ΛΑΣΓ στά τέλη τοῦ Όκτώβρη 1942 καί ἔφτασε στή Μακεδονία (Σκόπια) κατά τό Μάρτη τοῦ 1943.
- […] (he) left from the headquarters of LASG [People's Liberating Army of Yugoslavia] in the end of October 1942 and arrived at Macedonia (Skopje) approximately in March of 1943.
- […] ἔφυγε ἀπό την ἕδρα τοῦ Γενικοῦ Στρατηγείου τοῦ ΛΑΣΓ στά τέλη τοῦ Όκτώβρη 1942 καί ἔφτασε στή Μακεδονία (Σκόπια) κατά τό Μάρτη τοῦ 1943.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Μακεδονία.
- 1979, Giannēs Iōannidēs, Alekos Papapanagiōtou, "Αναμνήσεις" (Anamnēseis: provlēmata tēs politikēs tou KKE stēn ethnikē antistasē, 1940-1945) (Mémoires: problems of the Greek Communist Party policy during national Resistance 1940-1945), page 519 @books.google. (polytonic script):
Usage notes
- For the country "Republic of Macedonia" see "Macedonia naming dispute" on Wikipedia.) Expressions for the country in the 20th century included: "Ομόσπονδη Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Federal Republic of Macedonia"), "Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("People's Republic of Macedonia"), "Σοσιαλιστική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Socialist Republic of Macedonia"), post-Yugoslav bare "Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Republic of Macedonia"), and "πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("FYROM" Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).
Declension
Μακεδονία
| case \\ number | singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Μακεδονία • |
| genitive | Μακεδονίας • |
| accusative | Μακεδονία • |
| vocative | Μακεδονία • |
Related terms
- Βόρεια Μακεδονία f (Vóreia Makedonía, “North Macedonia”) (Republic of North Macedonia)
- Μακεδόνας m (Makedónas, “male Macedonian”)
- Μακεδονίτης m (Makedonítis, “male Macedonian”)
- Μακεδόνισσα f (Makedónissa, “female Macedonian”)
- Μακεδονίτισσα f (Makedonítissa, “female Macedonian”)
- μακεδονικός (makedonikós, “Macedonian”, adjective)
- μακεδονίτικος (makedonítikos, “Macedonian”, adjective)
- μακεδονομάχος m (makedonomáchos, “Macedonian warrior”)
- παμμακεδονικός (pammakedonikós, “pan-Macedonian”, adjective)
See also
Μακεδονία on Wikipedia.Wikipedia