Παγασαί
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.ɡa.sǎi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pa.ɡaˈsɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pa.ɣaˈsɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pa.ɣaˈse/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pa.ɣaˈse/
Proper noun
Πᾰγᾰσαί • (Pagasaí) f pl (genitive Πᾰγᾰσῶν); first declension
- Pagasae; Pagases, Magnesia, Greece
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.193:
- οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι, ὡς ἐπαύσατό τε ὁ ἄνεμος καὶ τὸ κῦμα ἔστρωτο, κατασπάσαντες τὰς νέας ἔπλεον παρὰ τὴν ἤπειρον, κάμψαντες δὲ τὴν ἄκρην τῆς Μαγνησίης ἰθέαν ἔπλεον ἐς τὸν κόλπον τὸν ἐπὶ Παγασέων φέροντα.
- hoi dè bárbaroi, hōs epaúsató te ho ánemos kaì tò kûma éstrōto, kataspásantes tàs néas épleon parà tḕn ḗpeiron, kámpsantes dè tḕn ákrēn tês Magnēsíēs ithéan épleon es tòn kólpon tòn epì Pagaséōn phéronta.
- The barbarians, when the wind ceased and the waves no longer ran high, put to sea and coasted along the mainland; they sailed around the headland of Magnesia and sailed straight into the gulf which stretches toward Pagasae.
- οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι, ὡς ἐπαύσατό τε ὁ ἄνεμος καὶ τὸ κῦμα ἔστρωτο, κατασπάσαντες τὰς νέας ἔπλεον παρὰ τὴν ἤπειρον, κάμψαντες δὲ τὴν ἄκρην τῆς Μαγνησίης ἰθέαν ἔπλεον ἐς τὸν κόλπον τὸν ἐπὶ Παγασέων φέροντα.
Declension
First declension of αἱ Πᾰγᾰσαί; τῶν Πᾰγᾰσῶν (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | αἱ Πᾰγᾰσαί hai Pagasaí | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν Πᾰγᾰσῶν tôn Pagasôn | ||||||||||||
Dative | ταῖς Πᾰγᾰσαῖς taîs Pagasaîs | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾱ̀ς Πᾰγᾰσᾱ́ς tā̀s Pagasā́s | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πᾰγᾰσαί Pagasaí | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Παγασές (Pagasés)
- Latin: Pagasae
References
- “Πᾰγᾰσαί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
Further reading
Pagasae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia