Λευκωσία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λευκός (leukós, “white”) or λεύκη (leúkē, “poplar”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /leu̯.kɔː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /leʍ.koˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /leɸ.koˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/
Proper noun
Λευκωσία • (Leukōsía) f (genitive Λευκωσίᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Λευκωσῐ́ᾱ hē Leukōsĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Λευκωσῐ́ᾱς tês Leukōsĭ́ās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Λευκωσῐ́ᾳ tēî Leukōsĭ́āi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Λευκωσῐ́ᾱν tḕn Leukōsĭ́ān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Λευκωσῐ́ᾱ Leukōsĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Further reading
- Λευκωσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Λευκωσία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
Greek
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek Λευκωσία (Leukōsía), variant of Λευκουσία (Leukousía).
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/
Proper noun
Λευκωσία • (Lefkosía) f
- Nicosia (the capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus)