ὑπηρεσία
See also: υπηρεσία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὑπηρετεία (hupēreteía)
Etymology
From ὑπηρέτης (hupērétēs, “rower; assistant, servant”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.pɛː.re.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)y.pe̝.reˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.pi.reˈsi.a/
Noun
ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ • (hupēresíā) f (genitive ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- body or rowers, ship's crew
- (in general) all kinds of service
- (in the plural) class of servants or attendants
Declension
First declension of ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hē hupēresíā | τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresíā | αἱ ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hai hupēresíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tês hupēresíās | τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresíain | τῶν ὑπηρεσῐῶν tôn hupēresiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾳ têi hupēresíāi | τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresíain | ταῖς ὑπηρεσῐ́αις taîs hupēresíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱν tḕn hupēresíān | τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresíā | τᾱ̀ς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hupēresíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresíā | ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresíā | ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hupēresíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: υπηρεσία (ypiresía)
Further reading
- “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπηρεσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette