δωρεά
See also: δωρεᾷ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Related to δῶρον (dôron, “gift”), albeit with a suffix -εᾱ́ (-eā́) of seemingly unclear form and function.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɔː.re.ǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /do.reˈa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðo.reˈa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðo.reˈa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðo.reˈa/
Noun
δωρεᾱ́ • (dōreā́) f (genitive δωρεᾶς); first declension
- a gift, a present, and especially bounty
- an estate granted by a king, a fief
- PSI (Papyri Greci e Latini) 5.511.4
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ δωρεᾱ́ hē dōreā́ |
τὼ δωρεᾱ́ tṑ dōreā́ |
αἱ δωρεαί hai dōreaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς δωρεᾶς tês dōreâs |
τοῖν δωρεαῖν toîn dōreaîn |
τῶν δωρεῶν tôn dōreôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ δωρεᾷ tēî dōreāî |
τοῖν δωρεαῖν toîn dōreaîn |
ταῖς δωρεαῖς taîs dōreaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν δωρεᾱ́ν tḕn dōreā́n |
τὼ δωρεᾱ́ tṑ dōreā́ |
τᾱ̀ς δωρεᾱ́ς tā̀s dōreā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δωρεᾱ́ dōreā́ |
δωρεᾱ́ dōreā́ |
δωρεαί dōreaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δωρεαί (dōreaí)
- δωρεᾱ́ν (dōreā́n)
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “δῶρον 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363: “DER > line 7 > δωρεά”
Further reading
- “δωρεά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δωρεά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δωρεά in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δωρεά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- G1431 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- δωρεά, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek δωρεᾱ́ (dōreā́).
Noun
δωρεά • (doreá) f (plural δωρεές)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | δωρεά (doreá) | δωρεές (doreés) |
| genitive | δωρεάς (doreás) | δωρεών (doreón) |
| accusative | δωρεά (doreá) | δωρεές (doreés) |
| vocative | δωρεά (doreá) | δωρεές (doreés) |
Derived terms
- δωρεάν (doreán, “for free”)
Related terms
- see: δωρίζω (dorízo, “to give”)
Further reading
- δωρεά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el