Ἀχαΐα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly came from Hittite Ahhiyawa ("land of Ahhiyawa").
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.kʰaː.í.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.kʰaˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.xaˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.xaˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.xaˈi.a/
Proper noun
Ἀχᾱΐᾱ • (Akhāḯā) f (genitive Ἀχᾱΐᾱς); first declension
- Achaea, a region on the north coast of the Peloponnese in Greece.
- Achaea, a province of the Roman Empire, comprising the majority of Greece.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ hē Akhāḯā |
τὼ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ tṑ Akhāḯā |
αἱ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαι hai Akhāḯai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱς tês Akhāḯās |
τοῖν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαιν toîn Akhāḯain |
τῶν Ᾰ̓χᾱϊῶν tôn Akhāïôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾳ têi Akhāḯāi |
τοῖν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαιν toîn Akhāḯain |
ταῖς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαις taîs Akhāḯais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱν tḕn Akhāḯān |
τὼ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ tṑ Akhāḯā |
τᾱ̀ς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱς tā̀s Akhāḯās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ Akhāḯā |
Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ Akhāḯā |
Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαι Akhāḯai | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- Ᾰ̓χαιός (Akhaiós)
- Ᾰ̓χαιῐκός (Akhaiikós)
- Ᾰ̓χαιῐ́ς (Akhaiís)
Descendants
- Greek: Αχαΐα (Achaḯa), Αχαγιά (Achagiá)
- Latin: Achaea
References
- Ἀχαΐα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἀχαΐα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- G882 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999
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