Βρεττανία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Βρεττανός (Brettanós) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Βρεττᾰνίᾱ • (Brettăníā) f (genitive Βρεττᾰνίᾱς); first declension

  1. Great Britain, Britain (a large island off the north-west coast of Western Europe)
  2. (in the plural) the British Isles

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ
hē Brettănĭ́ā 		τὼ Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ
tṑ Brettănĭ́ā 		αἱ Βρεττᾰνῐ́αι
hai Brettănĭ́ai
Genitive τῆς Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱς
tês Brettănĭ́ās 		τοῖν Βρεττᾰνῐ́αιν
toîn Brettănĭ́ain 		τῶν Βρεττᾰνῐῶν
tôn Brettănĭôn
Dative τῇ Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾳ
tēî Brettănĭ́āi 		τοῖν Βρεττᾰνῐ́αιν
toîn Brettănĭ́ain 		ταῖς Βρεττᾰνῐ́αις
taîs Brettănĭ́ais
Accusative τὴν Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱν
tḕn Brettănĭ́ān 		τὼ Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ
tṑ Brettănĭ́ā 		τᾱ̀ς Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱς
tā̀s Brettănĭ́ās
Vocative Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ
Brettănĭ́ā 		Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ
Brettănĭ́ā 		Βρεττᾰνῐ́αι
Brettănĭ́ai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Βρετανία (Vretanía)

Further reading

  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004

Greek

Proper noun

Βρεττανία • (Vrettanía) f

  1. obsolete spelling of Βρετανία (Vretanía) after Ancient Greek Βρεττᾰνῐ́ᾱ

Declension

Declension of Βρεττανία
singular
nominative Βρεττανία (Vrettanía)
genitive Βρεττανίας (Vrettanías)
accusative Βρεττανία (Vrettanía)
vocative Βρεττανία (Vrettanía)
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