Φοίνισσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Φοῖνῐξ (Phoînĭx, “Phoenician”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-iă).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φοίνῑσσᾰ • (Phoínīssă) f (genitive Φοινῑ́σσης); first declension

  1. Phoenicia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Φοίνῑσσᾰ; τῆς Φοινῑ́σσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Φοίνῑσσᾰ
hē Phoínīssă
Genitive τῆς Φοινῑ́σσης
tês Phoinī́ssēs
Dative τῇ Φοινῑ́σσῃ
tēî Phoinī́ssēi
Accusative τὴν Φοίνῑσσᾰν
tḕn Phoínīssăn
Vocative Φοίνῑσσᾰ
Phoínīssă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Φοίνισσα (Foínissa)
  • Latin: Phoenīssa

References

  • “Φοίνισσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022
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