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-ία
-ία
Ancient Greek
Suffix
-ῐ́ᾱ • (-íā) f (genitive -ῐ́ᾱς) first declension
- Added to stems of adjectives, or rarely to the stems of verbs, to form feminine abstract nouns
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ῐ́ᾱ | -ῐ́ᾱ | -ῐ́αι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | -ῐ́ᾱς | -ῐ́αιν | -ῐῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | -ῐ́ᾳ | -ῐ́αιν | -ῐ́αις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | -ῐ́ᾱν | -ῐ́ᾱ | -ῐ́ᾱς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | -ῐ́ᾱ | -ῐ́ᾱ | -ῐ́αι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%AF%CE%B1'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -ία</a>
Descendants
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈia/
Suffix
-ία • (-ía) f
- added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
