Ἀσσυρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἀσσῠρίᾱ • (Assŭríā) f (genitive Ἀσσῠρίᾱς); first declension

  1. (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀσσυρίᾱ; τῆς Ἀσσυρίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἀσσυρίᾱ
hē Assuríā
Genitive τῆς Ἀσσυρίᾱς
tês Assuríās
Dative τῇ Ἀσσυρίᾳ
tēî Assuríāi
Accusative τὴν Ἀσσυρίᾱν
tḕn Assuríān
Vocative Ἀσσυρίᾱ
Assuríā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Ἀσσύριος (Assúrios)

Descendants

  • Greek: Ασσυρία (Assyría)
  • → Latin: Assyria (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

  • “Ἀσσυρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἀσσυρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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