Ἱσπανία

Ἱσπανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σπᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Spāníā), Ἑσπᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Hespāníā)

Etymology

From Latin Hispānia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /his.paː.ní.aː/ → /is.paˈni.a/ → /is.paˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /his.paː.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)is.paˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /is.paˈni.a/

Proper noun

Ἱσπᾱνίᾱ • (Hispāníā) f (genitive Ἱσπᾱνίᾱς); first declension

1. Hispania
2. the Iberian Peninsula
3. Spain

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱ hē Hispāníā
Genitive	τῆς Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱς tês Hispāníās
Dative	τῇ Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾳ têi Hispāníāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱν tḕn Hispāníān
Vocative	Ἱσπᾱνῐ́ᾱ Hispāníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ισπανία (Ispanía)

Further reading

• Ἱσπανία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἱσπανία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

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