σαπρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σᾰπρός (saprós, “rotten, putrid”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sa.prí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /saˈpri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /saˈpri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /saˈpri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /saˈpri.a/
Noun
σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ • (sapríā) f (genitive σᾰπρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- decay, decayed matter
Inflection
First declension of ἡ σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σᾰπρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ hē sapríā | τὼ σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ tṑ sapríā | αἱ σᾰπρῐ́αι hai sapríai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σᾰπρῐ́ᾱς tês sapríās | τοῖν σᾰπρῐ́αιν toîn sapríain | τῶν σᾰπρῐῶν tôn sapriôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σᾰπρῐ́ᾳ têi sapríāi | σᾰπρῐ́αιν sapríain | ταῖς σᾰπρῐ́αις taîs sapríais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σᾰπρῐ́ᾱν tḕn sapríān | σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ sapríā | τᾱ̀ς σᾰπρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s sapríās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ sapríā | σᾰπρῐ́ᾱ sapríā | σᾰπρῐ́αι sapríai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- σαπρία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαπρία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σαπρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette