ξενία

See also: ξένια and Ξένια

Ancient Greek

From ξένος (xénos, “stranger, guest”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xenĭ́ā) f (genitive ξενῐ́ᾱς); first declension

hospitality, hospitable reception, entertainment
guest room
friendly relations
the state/rights of a foreigner
the idea that all strangers have a right to a certain gift, whether it is food, gold, entertainment or a place to stay

First declension of ἡ ξενῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ξενῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ξενῐ́ᾱ hē xenĭ́ā	τὼ ξενῐ́ᾱ tṑ xenĭ́ā	αἱ ξενῐ́αι hai xenĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ξενῐ́ᾱς tês xenĭ́ās	τοῖν ξενῐ́αιν toîn xenĭ́ain	τῶν ξενῐῶν tôn xenĭôn
Dative	τῇ ξενῐ́ᾳ tēî xenĭ́āi	τοῖν ξενῐ́αιν toîn xenĭ́ain	ταῖς ξενῐ́αις taîs xenĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ξενῐ́ᾱν tḕn xenĭ́ān	τὼ ξενῐ́ᾱ tṑ xenĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ξενῐ́ᾱς tā̀s xenĭ́ās
Vocative	ξενῐ́ᾱ xenĭ́ā	ξενῐ́ᾱ xenĭ́ā	ξενῐ́αι xenĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xenĭ́ā)

inflection of ξένῐος (xénĭos):
1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
2. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative dual

“ξενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ξενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ξενία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
“ξενία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3578 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hospitality idem, page 407.

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality”).

ξενία • (xenía) m (plural ξενίες)