Ῥωσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ῥωσσία (Rhōssía)

Etymology

From Ῥῶς (Rhôs) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/

Noun

Ῥωσίᾱ • (Rhōsíā) f (genitive Ῥωσίᾱς); first declension

(Byzantine) Rus, Kievan Rus
- 1967 [10th century], chapter 9, in Romilly James Heald Jenkins, transl., edited by Gyula Moravcsik, Constantine Porphyrogenitus De Administrando Imperio‎^[1], Dumbarton Oaks, translation of De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII, →ISBN:
  Ὅτι τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς ἔξω Ῥωσίας μονόξυλα xatepydueva ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει εἰσὶ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ Νεμογαρδάς, ἐν ᾧ Σφενδοσθλάβος, ὁ υἱὸς Ἴγγωρ, τοῦ ἄρχοντος Ῥωσίας, ἐκαθέζετο, εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τὸ χάστρον τὴν Μιλινίσκαν καὶ ἀπὸ Τελιούτζαν καὶ Τζερνιγῶγαν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Βουσεγραδέ.
  Hóti tà apò tês éxō Rhōsías monóxula xatepydueva en Kōnstantinoupólei eisì mèn apò toû Nemogardás, en hōî Sphendosthlábos, ho huiòs Íngōr, toû árkhontos Rhōsías, ekathézeto, eisì dè kaì apò tò khástron tḕn Milinískan kaì apò Telioútzan kaì Tzernigôgan kaì apò toû Bousegradé.
  The ‘monoxyla’ which come down from outer Russia to Constantinople are from Novgorod, where Sviatoslav, son of Igor, prince of Russia, had his seat, and others from the city of Smolensk and from Teliutza and Chernigov and from Vyshegrad.
  Note: word Russia is used here in dated sense “Kievan Rus”.

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ; τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ hē Rhōsíā
Genitive	τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς tês Rhōsíās
Dative	τῇ Ῥωσίᾳ tēî Rhōsíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥωσίᾱν tḕn Rhōsíān
Vocative	Ῥωσίᾱ Rhōsíā

Derived terms

Μεγάλη Ῥωσσίᾱ (Megálē Rhōssíā)
Μικρὰ Ῥωσσίᾱ (Mikrà Rhōssíā)

Descendants

Greek: Ρωσία (Rosía)
→ Church Slavonic: Роусиꙗ (Rusija)
- Bulgarian: Руси́я (Rusíja)
→ Medieval Latin: Rōssia
→ Russian: Росси́я (Rossíja) (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Ruthenian: Росїꙗ (Rosija), Россїꙗ (Rossija)
- Belarusian: Расі́я (Rasíja); Расе́я (Rasjéja)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Ро́сія (Rósija), Русія (Rusija)
  - → Pannonian Rusyn: Русия (Rusija)
- Ukrainian: Росі́я (Rosíja)

Further reading

Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “Ῥωσία”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 974