ἀνθολογία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower, blossom”) + λόγος (lógos, “account”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /an.tʰo.lo.ɡí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /an.tʰo.loˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/
Noun
ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ • (anthologĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- The act of gathering flowers; flowerpicking.
- (figuratively) a collection of poems; anthology
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ hē anthologĭ́ā |
τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologĭ́ā |
αἱ ἀνθολογῐ́αι hai anthologĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tês anthologĭ́ās |
τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologĭ́ain |
τῶν ἀνθολογῐῶν tôn anthologĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾳ tēî anthologĭ́āi |
τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologĭ́ain |
ταῖς ἀνθολογῐ́αις taîs anthologĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn anthologĭ́ān |
τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s anthologĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologĭ́ā |
ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologĭ́ā |
ἀνθολογῐ́αι anthologĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ανθολογία (anthología)
- → Asturian: antoloxía
- → Catalan: antologia
- → Czech: antologie
- → Danish: antologi
- → English: anthology
- → Finnish: antologia
- → French: anthologie
- → Dutch: anthologie
- → Romanian: antologie
- → Walloon: antolodjeye
- → Galician: antoloxía
- → German: Anthologie
- → Hebrew: אנתולוגיה (antológya)
- → Hungarian: antológia
- → Italian: antologia
- → Latvian: antoloģija
- → Norwegian: antologi
- → Polish: antologia
- → Portuguese: antologia
- → Russian: антоло́гия (antológija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: антоло̀гија (antològija)
- → Spanish: antología
- → Swedish: antologi
- → Turkish: antoloji
- → Ukrainian: антоло́гія (antolóhija)
- → Yiddish: אַנטאָלאָגיע (antologye)
- → Renaissance Latin: flōrilegium (calque)
References
- “ἀνθολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀνθολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀνθολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀνθολογία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)