-ία

See also: ἰά, ἴα, -ια, and -ιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate with Latin -ia, from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a/

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

First declension of -ῐ́ᾱ; -ῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́αι -íai
Genitive	-ῐ́ᾱς -íās	-ῐ́αιν -íain	-ῐῶν -iôn
Dative	-ῐ́ᾳ -íāi	-ῐ́αιν -íain	-ῐ́αις -íais
Accusative	-ῐ́ᾱν -íān	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱς -íās
Vocative	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́αι -íai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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Descendants

English: -ia
French: -ie

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:
‎Γάλλος (Gállos, “French”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Γαλλία (Gallía, “France”)

‎Τούρκος (Toúrkos, “Turk”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Τουρκία (Tourkía, “Turkey”)

‎Άγγλος (Ánglos, “English”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Αγγλία (Anglía, “England”)

Declension

Declension of -ία (-ía)

	singular
nominative	-ία •
genitive	-ίας •
accusative	-ία •
vocative	-ία •

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