πεντασυλλαβία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
πεντᾰσῠ́λλᾰβος (pentăsŭ́llăbos, “pentasyllabic”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pen.ta.syl.la.bí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pen.ta.syl.laˈbi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pen.ta.syl.laˈβi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pen.ta.syl.laˈvi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pen.da.si.laˈvi.a/
Noun
πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ • (pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā) f (genitive πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (Byzantine) pentasyllabicity, pentasyllabism (state or quality of comprising five syllables)
- p. 1179, Eustathius Thessalonicensis, Commentarium in Dionysii periegetae Orbis descriptionem 916.280.8–10:
- διαλυθὲν δὲ ἐκ τετρασυλλάβου τὸ τοιοῦτον ἐντελὲς Ποσίδειον εἰς πεντασυλλαβίαν γέγονε Ποσιδήϊον.
- dialuthèn dè ek tetrasullábou tò toioûton entelès Posídeion eis pentasullabían gégone Posidḗïon.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- διαλυθὲν δὲ ἐκ τετρασυλλάβου τὸ τοιοῦτον ἐντελὲς Ποσίδειον εἰς πεντασυλλαβίαν γέγονε Ποσιδήϊον.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ hē pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā |
τὼ πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ tṑ pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā |
αἱ πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́αι hai pentăsŭllăbĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱς tês pentăsŭllăbĭ́ās |
τοῖν πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́αιν toîn pentăsŭllăbĭ́ain |
τῶν πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐῶν tôn pentăsŭllăbĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾳ tēî pentăsŭllăbĭ́āi |
τοῖν πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́αιν toîn pentăsŭllăbĭ́ain |
ταῖς πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́αις taîs pentăsŭllăbĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱν tḕn pentăsŭllăbĭ́ān |
τὼ πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ tṑ pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱς tā̀s pentăsŭllăbĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā |
πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́ᾱ pentăsŭllăbĭ́ā |
πεντᾰσῠλλᾰβῐ́αι pentăsŭllăbĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πεντασυλλᾰβία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “πεντασυλλαβία”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn