Ῥωσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ῥωσσία (Rhōssía)

Etymology

From Ῥῶς (Rhôs) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/

Noun

Ῥωσία • (Rhōsía) f (genitive Ῥωσίας); first declension

(Koine, Byzantine) Russia (a country in Europe and Asia)
- 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, Adm. 71

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ; τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ hē Rhōsíā
Genitive	τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς tês Rhōsíās
Dative	τῇ Ῥωσίᾳ têi Rhōsíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥωσίᾱν tḕn Rhōsíān
Vocative	Ῥωσίᾱ Rhōsíā

Descendants

Greek: Ρωσία f sg (Rosía)
→ Old Church Slavonic: Роусиꙗ (Rusija)
- Bulgarian: Руси́я (Rusíja)
→ Medieval Latin: Rōssia f sg
→ Middle Russian: Росі́ꙗ f sg (Rosíja), Россі́ꙗ f sg (Rossíja)
- Russian: Росси́я (Rossíja) (see there for further descendants)
- → Belarusian: Расі́я f sg (Rasíja)
- → Polish: Rosja f sg
- → Carpathian Rusyn: Росі́я f sg (Rosíja)
- → Ukrainian: Росі́я f sg (Rosíja)

Further reading

Sophocles, E. A. (1900) Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 974

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