κώδεια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κώδεα (kṓdea), κωδία (kōdía), κωδύα (kōdúa), κώδυια (kṓduia)

Etymology

According to Furnée and Beekes, the phonetic variation in the alternative forms points to a Pre-Greek origin, in addition to irregular similarities to other words for "cup", like κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”), κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”), κόνδυ (kóndu, “cup”), κώθων (kṓthōn, “Laconian drinking vessel”), as well as, outside of Greek, Etruscan 𐌒𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌌 (qutum, “kind of vessel”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.deː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.di.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ði.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ði.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ði.a/

Noun

κώδειᾰ • (kṓdeiă) f (genitive κωδείᾱς); first declension

(botany) poppyhead, head of plants
cup shaped like a poppyhead

Declension

First declension of ἡ κώδειᾰ; τῆς κωδείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κώδειᾰ hē kṓdeiă	τὼ κωδείᾱ tṑ kōdeíā	αἱ κώδειαι hai kṓdeiai
Genitive	τῆς κωδείᾱς tês kōdeíās	τοῖν κωδείαιν toîn kōdeíain	τῶν κωδειῶν tôn kōdeiôn
Dative	τῇ κωδείᾳ tēî kōdeíāi	τοῖν κωδείαιν toîn kōdeíain	ταῖς κωδείαις taîs kōdeíais
Accusative	τὴν κώδειᾰν tḕn kṓdeiăn	τὼ κωδείᾱ tṑ kōdeíā	τᾱ̀ς κωδείᾱς tā̀s kōdeíās
Vocative	κώδειᾰ kṓdeiă	κωδείᾱ kōdeíā	κώδειαι kṓdeiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: codia

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κώδεια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 812