αἴθουσα

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

αἴθουσα • (aíthousa)

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of αἴθων (aíthōn)

Etymology 2

Traditionally explained as a derivation from αἴθω (aíthō, “to glow”) but this is a folk etymology. The word is more likely from Pre-Greek (albeit with semantic reinforcement from the folk etymology), due to the likely-related αἴδῶσσα (aídôssa, “the walls of a court of hall”) demonstrating significant consonantal variation, as well as the variant αἴθουσσα (aíthoussa) showing σ/σσ variation.[1]

Alternative forms

  • αἴδῶσσα (aídôssa)

Noun

αἴθουσᾰ • (aíthousă) f (genitive αἰθούσης); first declension

  1. (architecture) portico, veranda
  2. poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ αἴθουσᾰ; τῆς αἰθούσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ αἴθουσᾰ
hē aíthousă 		τὼ αἰθούσᾱ
tṑ aithoúsā 		αἱ αἴθουσαι
hai aíthousai
Genitive τῆς αἰθούσης
tês aithoúsēs 		τοῖν αἰθούσαιν
toîn aithoúsain 		τῶν αἰθουσῶν
tôn aithousôn
Dative τῇ αἰθούσῃ
tēî aithoúsēi 		τοῖν αἰθούσαιν
toîn aithoúsain 		ταῖς αἰθούσαις
taîs aithoúsais
Accusative τὴν αἴθουσᾰν
tḕn aíthousăn 		τὼ αἰθούσᾱ
tṑ aithoúsā 		τᾱ̀ς αἰθούσᾱς
tā̀s aithoúsās
Vocative αἴθουσᾰ
aíthousă 		αἰθούσᾱ
aithoúsā 		αἴθουσαι
aíthousai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Alternative forms
  • αἰδῶσσα (aidôssa), αἴθουσσα (aíthoussa)
Descendants
  • → Greek: αίθουσα (aíthousa)
  • → Translingual: Aethusa

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αἴθουσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 36-7

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