ἐπιδημία
See also: επιδημία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἐπιδᾱμίᾱ (epidāmíā) — Doric
Etymology
From ἐπιδημέω (epidēméō) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pi.dɛː.í.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.pi.de̝ˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/
Noun
ἐπῐδημίᾱ • (epĭdēmíā) f (genitive ἐπῐδημίᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐπῐδημίᾱ hē epĭdēmíā |
τὼ ἐπῐδημίᾱ tṑ epĭdēmíā |
αἱ ἐπῐδημίαι hai epĭdēmíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπῐδημίᾱς tês epĭdēmíās |
τοῖν ἐπῐδημίαιν toîn epĭdēmíain |
τῶν ἐπῐδημιῶν tôn epĭdēmiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπῐδημίᾳ tēî epĭdēmíāi |
τοῖν ἐπῐδημίαιν toîn epĭdēmíain |
ταῖς ἐπῐδημίαις taîs epĭdēmíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐπῐδημίᾱν tḕn epĭdēmíān |
τὼ ἐπῐδημίᾱ tṑ epĭdēmíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐδημίᾱς tā̀s epĭdēmíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπῐδημίᾱ epĭdēmíā |
ἐπῐδημίᾱ epĭdēmíā |
ἐπῐδημίαι epĭdēmíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπιδημιακός (epidēmiakós)
Descendants
- Greek: επιδημία (epidimía)
- → Bulgarian: епиде́мия (epidémija)
- → Latin: epidēmia (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: эпиде́мия (epidémija)
- → Kazakh: эпидемия (épidemiä)
- → Ukrainian: епіде́мія (epidémija)
Further reading
- ἐπιδημία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐπιδημία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐπιδημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.