σπειραία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil, wreath”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), because of the shape of its follicles.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /speː.rǎi̯.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spiˈrɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spiˈrɛ.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spiˈre.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spiˈre.a/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σπειραίᾱ hē speiraíā |
τὼ σπειραίᾱ tṑ speiraíā |
αἱ σπειραῖαι hai speiraîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σπειραίᾱς tês speiraíās |
τοῖν σπειραίαιν toîn speiraíain |
τῶν σπειραιῶν tôn speiraiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σπειραίᾳ têi speiraíāi |
τοῖν σπειραίαιν toîn speiraíain |
ταῖς σπειραίαις taîs speiraíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σπειραίᾱν tḕn speiraíān |
τὼ σπειραίᾱ tṑ speiraíā |
τᾱ̀ς σπειραίᾱς tā̀s speiraíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπειραίᾱ speiraíā |
σπειραίᾱ speiraíā |
σπειραῖαι speiraîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Spiraea
Further reading
- “σπειραία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπειραία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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