Μάρεια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • Μᾰρεῶτῐς (Măreôtĭs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian


(mryt, “bank, shore, quay”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Μᾰ́ρειᾰ • (Mắreiă) f (genitive Μᾰρείᾱς); first declension

  1. Marea, Lake Mariout

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μᾰ́ρειᾰ; τῆς Μᾰρείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Μᾰ́ρειᾰ
hē Mắreiă
Genitive τῆς Μᾰρείᾱς
tês Măreíās
Dative τῇ Μᾰρείᾳ
tēî Măreíāi
Accusative τὴν Μᾰ́ρειᾰν
tḕn Mắreiăn
Vocative Μᾰ́ρειᾰ
Mắreiă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Μάρεια (Máreia)
  • → Latin: Marēa

References

  1. ^ Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) “mryt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112

Further reading

  • “Μάρεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
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