Ἰνδία

See also: Ινδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

Compare Persian هند (hend), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ • (Indíā) f (genitive Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

  1. India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ
hē Indíā
Genitive τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς
tês Indíās
Dative τῇ Ἰνδῐ́ᾳ
têi Indíāi
Accusative τὴν Ἰνδῐ́ᾱν
tḕn Indíān
Vocative Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ
Indíā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Ινδία (Indía)
  • Latin: India, indicus

References
  • “Ἰνδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
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