κονία

Ancient Greek

From κόνις (kónis).

κονῐ́ᾱ • (koníā) f (genitive κονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

dust, as stirred up by men's feet
1. sand, soil
2. (in the plural) ashes
a fine powder, sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent
powdered lime, plaster, stucco
any kind of lyes or alkaline carbonates made from ashes and used for washing

First declension of ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ hē koníā	αἱ κονῐ́αι hai koníai
Genitive	τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς tês koníās	τῶν κονῐῶν tôn koniôn
Dative	τῇ κονῐ́ᾳ têi koníāi	ταῖς κονῐ́αις taîs koníais
Accusative	τὴν κονῐ́ᾱν tḕn koníān	τᾱ̀ς κονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koníās
Vocative	κονῐ́ᾱ koníā	κονῐ́αι koníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lye idem, page 506.
- powder idem, page 630.

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