Ὀλυμπία
See also: Ολυμπία and Ὀλύμπια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.lym.pí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.limˈbi.a/
Proper noun
Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ • (Olumpíā) f (genitive Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Olympia
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ hē Olumpíā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς tês Olumpíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾳ têi Olumpíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱν tḕn Olumpíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ Olumpíā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ὀλύμπῐᾰ (Olúmpia)
- Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾰζε (Olumpíaze)
- Ὀλυμπῐᾰκός (Olumpiakós)
- Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς (Olumpiás)
- Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱσῐ (Olumpíāsi)
- Ὀλυμπῐκός (Olumpikós)
- Ὀλυμπῐονῑ́κης (Olumpionī́kēs)
Descendants
- → Arabic: أُولِيمْبِيَا (ʾūlīmbiyā)
- → Breton: Olimpia
- → Czech: Olympie
- → Danish: Olympia
- → Dutch: Olympia
- → English: Olympia
- → Estonian: Olümpia
- → Finnish: Olympia
- → French: Olympie
- → German: Olympia
- Greek: Ολυμπία (Olympía), Ολύμπια (Olýmpia)
- → Hebrew: אולימפיה (Olimpya)
- → Italian: Olimpia
- → Japanese: オリンピア (Orinpia)
- → Low German: Olympia
- → Luxembourgish: Olympia
- → Norwegian: Olympia
- → Persian: المپیا
- → Polish: Olimpia
- → Portuguese: Olímpia
- → Romanian: Olympia
- → Russian: Оли́мпия (Olímpija)
- → Slovene: Olimpija
- → Spanish: Olimpia
- → Swedish: Olympia
- → Turkish: Olimpiya
- → Ukrainian: Олімпія (Olimpija)
- → Vietnamese: Olympia
References
- “Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ὀλυμπία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019