Ἀρκαδία
See also: Αρκαδία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Named after Ἀρκάς (Arkás, “Arcas”), son of Zeus and king of Arcadia, from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀏 (a-ka), 𐀀𐀏𐀆 (a-ka-de), from Proto-Hellenic *árktos (“bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.ka.dí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ar.kaˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ar.kaˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ar.kaˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ar.kaˈði.a/
Proper noun
Ἀρκᾰδίᾱ • (Arkadíā) f (genitive Ἀρκᾰδίᾱς); first declension
- Arcadia (an ancient region in Peloponnese, in modern Greece)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ἀρκᾰδίᾱ hē Arkadíā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἀρκᾰδίᾱς tês Arkadíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἀρκᾰδίᾳ têi Arkadíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἀρκᾰδίᾱν tḕn Arkadíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀρκᾰδίᾱ Arkadíā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀρκάς (Arkás)
- ἀρκαδικός (arkadikós)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἀρκαδία”, 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
- Ἀρκαδία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἀρκαδία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002
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