βασίλεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”) + -ιᾰ (-iă, feminine ending), synchronically also analyzable as βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”) + -εια (-eia). Intervocalic ι (i) developed from a sonorant cluster /wj/, which assimilated to /jj/, then became the second element in the diphthong ει (ei). The formation is thus *βασίλεϝ-ι̯ᾰ (*basílew-i̯ă) > *βασίλει̯-ι̯ᾰ (*basílei̯-i̯ă) > βασίλειᾰ (basíleiă).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ba.sí.leː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /baˈsi.li.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βaˈsi.li.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vaˈsi.li.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vaˈsi.li.a/
Noun
βασίλειᾰ • (basíleiă) f (genitive βασιλείᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βασίλειᾰ hē basíleiă |
τὼ βασιλείᾱ tṑ basileíā |
αἱ βασίλειαι hai basíleiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βασιλείᾱς tês basileíās |
τοῖν βασιλείαιν toîn basileíain |
τῶν βασιλειῶν tôn basileiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βασιλείᾳ tēî basileíāi |
τοῖν βασιλείαιν toîn basileíain |
ταῖς βασιλείαις taîs basileíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βασίλειᾰν tḕn basíleiăn |
τὼ βασιλείᾱ tṑ basileíā |
τᾱ̀ς βασιλείᾱς tā̀s basileíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βασίλειᾰ basíleiă |
βασιλείᾱ basileíā |
βασίλειαι basíleiai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “βασίλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βασίλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βασίλεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βασίλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βασίλεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βασίλεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “βασίλεια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 221
- Paul Kiparsky, "Sonorant Clusters in Greek", Language, Vol. 43, No. 3, Part 1, pp. 619-635: Sep. 1967
Greek
Noun
βασίλεια • (vasíleia) n
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of βασίλειο (vasíleio)