αἶσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of αἰτέω (aitéō, “to ask for, beg”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

αἶσᾰ • (aîsa) f (genitive αἴσης); first declension

  1. destiny, fate
  2. (personified) a goddess of destiny

Declension
First declension of ἡ αἶσᾰ; τῆς αἴσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ αἶσᾰ
hē aîsa		 τὼ αἴσᾱ
tṑ aísā		 αἱ αἶσαι
hai aîsai
Genitive τῆς αἴσης
tês aísēs		 τοῖν αἴσαιν
toîn aísain		 τῶν αἰσῶν
tôn aisôn
Dative τῇ αἴσῃ
têi aísēi		 τοῖν αἴσαιν
toîn aísain		 ταῖς αἴσαις
taîs aísais
Accusative τὴν αἶσᾰν
tḕn aîsan		 τὼ αἴσᾱ
tṑ aísā		 τᾱ̀ς αἴσᾱς
tā̀s aísās
Vocative αἶσᾰ
aîsa		 αἴσᾱ
aísā		 αἶσαι
aîsai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • αἴσιος (aísios)

Further reading
  • αἶσα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • αἶσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • αἶσα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • Fate idem, page 1010.
    • doom idem, page 247.
    • fate idem, page 309.
    • lot idem, page 501.
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