ἰτέα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“twining object”), with remodeling of the suffix like in other tree names (compare ἀκτέᾱ (aktéā, “elder (tree)”) and πτελέᾱ (pteléā, “elm”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /iː.té.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈte.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈte.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈte.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈte.a/
Noun
ῑ̓τέᾱ • (ītéā) f (genitive ῑ̓τέᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῑ̓τέᾱ hē ītéā |
τὼ ῑ̓τέᾱ tṑ ītéā |
αἱ ῑ̓τέαι hai ītéai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῑ̓τέᾱς tês ītéās |
τοῖν ῑ̓τέαιν toîn ītéain |
τῶν ῑ̓τεῶν tôn īteôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῑ̓τέᾳ tēî ītéāi |
τοῖν ῑ̓τέαιν toîn ītéain |
ταῖς ῑ̓τέαις taîs ītéais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῑ̓τέᾱν tḕn ītéān |
τὼ ῑ̓τέᾱ tṑ ītéā |
τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓τέᾱς tā̀s ītéās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῑ̓τέᾱ ītéā |
ῑ̓τέᾱ ītéā |
ῑ̓τέαι ītéai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰτέϊνος (itéïnos)
Related terms
- ἴτῠς (ítŭs)
Descendants
- Greek: ιτιά (itiá)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἰτέα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 604
Further reading
- “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰτέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ἰτέα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011