ῥαψῳδία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “performer of Epic poetry”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ap.sɔːi̯.dí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /rap.soˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /rap.soˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /rap.soˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /rap.soˈði.a/
Noun
ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ • (rhapsōidíā) f (genitive ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- recitation of Epic poetry
- Epic composition
- rigmarole
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ hē rhapsōidíā | τὼ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhapsōidíā | αἱ ῥαψῳδῐ́αι hai rhapsōidíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς tês rhapsōidíās | τοῖν ῥαψῳδῐ́αιν toîn rhapsōidíain | τῶν ῥαψῳδῐῶν tôn rhapsōidiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾳ têi rhapsōidíāi | τοῖν ῥαψῳδῐ́αιν toîn rhapsōidíain | ταῖς ῥαψῳδῐ́αις taîs rhapsōidíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn rhapsōidíān | τὼ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhapsōidíā | τᾱ̀ς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s rhapsōidíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ rhapsōidíā | ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ rhapsōidíā | ῥαψῳδῐ́αι rhapsōidíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: rhapsōdia
- → Middle French: rhapsodie
- → English: rhapsody
- French: rhapsodie
- → Middle French: rhapsodie
Further reading
- “ῥαψῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥαψῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥαψῳδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette