γλία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”). Cognate with γλίνη (glínē), γλοιός (gloiós), Latin gluten, Proto-Germanic *klajjaz and Lithuanian glitùs.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡlí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.a/
Noun
γλῐ́ᾱ • (glĭ́ā) f (genitive γλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ γλῐ́ᾱ hē glĭ́ā |
τὼ γλῐ́ᾱ tṑ glĭ́ā |
αἱ γλῐ́αι hai glĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς γλῐ́ᾱς tês glĭ́ās |
τοῖν γλῐ́αιν toîn glĭ́ain |
τῶν γλῐῶν tôn glĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ γλῐ́ᾳ tēî glĭ́āi |
τοῖν γλῐ́αιν toîn glĭ́ain |
ταῖς γλῐ́αις taîs glĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν γλῐ́ᾱν tḕn glĭ́ān |
τὼ γλῐ́ᾱ tṑ glĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς γλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s glĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γλῐ́ᾱ glĭ́ā |
γλῐ́ᾱ glĭ́ā |
γλῐ́αι glĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- γλοιός (gloiós)
Further reading
- “γλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN