Ἀσσυρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.sy.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /as.syˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /as.syˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /as.syˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.siˈri.a/
Proper noun
Ἀσσῠρίᾱ • (Assuríā) f (genitive Ἀσσῠρίᾱς); first declension
- Assyria
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ἀσσυρίᾱ; τῆς Ἀσσυρίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ἀσσυρίᾱ hē Assuríā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ἀσσυρίᾱς tês Assuríās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ἀσσυρίᾳ têi Assuríāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ἀσσυρίᾱν tḕn Assuríān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἀσσυρίᾱ Assuríā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀσσύριος (Assúrios)
Descendants
- Greek: Ασσυρία (Assyría)
- → Latin: Assyria (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “Ἀσσυρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἀσσυρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003