πολυφωνία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολύφωνος (polúphōnos) (from πολυ- (polu-) +‎ φωνή (phōnḗ)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ly.pʰɔː.ní.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.ly.pʰoˈni.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.ly.ɸoˈni.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.ly.foˈni.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.li.foˈni.a/

Noun

πολῠφωνίᾱ • (polŭphōníā) f (genitive πολῠφωνίᾱς); first declension

variety of tones
variety of speech

Declension

First declension of ἡ πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ hē polŭphōnĭ́ā	τὼ πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ polŭphōnĭ́ā	αἱ πολῠφωνῐ́αι hai polŭphōnĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱς tês polŭphōnĭ́ās	τοῖν πολῠφωνῐ́αιν toîn polŭphōnĭ́ain	τῶν πολῠφωνῐῶν tôn polŭphōnĭôn
Dative	τῇ πολῠφωνῐ́ᾳ tēî polŭphōnĭ́āi	τοῖν πολῠφωνῐ́αιν toîn polŭphōnĭ́ain	ταῖς πολῠφωνῐ́αις taîs polŭphōnĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn polŭphōnĭ́ān	τὼ πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ polŭphōnĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s polŭphōnĭ́ās
Vocative	πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ polŭphōnĭ́ā	πολῠφωνῐ́ᾱ polŭphōnĭ́ā	πολῠφωνῐ́αι polŭphōnĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

πολυφωνέω (poluphōnéō)

Descendants

Descendants

Greek: πολυφωνία (polyfonía)
→ Armenian: պոլիֆոնիա (polifonia)
→ Belarusian: поліфані́я (polifaníja)
→ Bulgarian: полифо́ния (polifónija)
→ Catalan: polifonia
→ Danish: polyfoni
→ Dutch: polyfonie
→ English: polyphonia, polyphony
→ Finnish: polyfonia
→ Georgian: პოლიფონია (ṗoliponia)
→ German: Polyphonie
→ French: polyphonie
→ Hebrew: פוליפוניה (polifónya)
→ Icelandic: pólýfónía
→ Italian: polifonia
→ Japanese: ポリフォニー (porifonī)
→ Polish: polifonia
→ Portuguese: polifonia
→ Romanian: polifonie
→ Russian: полифони́я (polifoníja)
→ Slovene: polifonija
→ Spanish: polifonía
→ Swedish: polyfoni
→ Ukrainian: поліфоні́я (polifoníja)

Further reading

πολυφωνία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“πολυφωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πολυφωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πολυφωνία in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυφωνία (poluphōnía).

Noun

πολυφωνία • (polyfonía) f (plural πολυφωνίες)

(music) polyphony
Coordinate terms: εναρμόνιση (enarmónisi), αντίστιξη (antístixi)

Declension

Declension of **πολυφωνία**
	singular	plural
nominative	πολυφωνία (polyfonía)	πολυφωνίες (polyfoníes)
genitive	πολυφωνίας (polyfonías)	πολυφωνιών (polyfonión)
accusative	πολυφωνία (polyfonía)	πολυφωνίες (polyfoníes)
vocative	πολυφωνία (polyfonía)	πολυφωνίες (polyfoníes)

Related terms

πολυφωνικός (polyfonikós, “polyphonic”, adjective)

Further reading

πολυφωνία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el