Πιερία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Πῑ́ερες (Pī́eres, “Pierians”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /piː.e.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.eˈri.a/
Proper noun
Πῑερῐ́ᾱ • (Pīeríā) f (genitive Πῑερῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Pieria, Macedonia, Greece
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ hē Pīeríā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς tês Pīeríās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Πῑερῐ́ᾳ têi Pīeríāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Πῑερῐ́ᾱν tḕn Pīeríān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πῑερῐ́ᾱ Pīeríā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Πιερία (Piería)
- Latin: Pīeria
References
- “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022