ἱκετεία

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hi.ke.těː.aː/ → /i.ceˈti.a/ → /i.ceˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hi.ke.těː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)i.keˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.ceˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.ceˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ceˈti.a/

Noun

ἱκετείᾱ • (hiketeíā) f (genitive ἱκετείᾱς); first declension

1. Old Attic form of ἱκεσίᾱ (hikesíā, “supplication”)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἱκετείᾱ; τῆς ἱκετείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἱκετείᾱ hē hiketeíā	τὼ ἱκετείᾱ tṑ hiketeíā	αἱ ἱκετεῖαι hai hiketeîai
Genitive	τῆς ἱκετείᾱς tês hiketeíās	τοῖν ἱκετείαιν toîn hiketeíain	τῶν ἱκετειῶν tôn hiketeiôn
Dative	τῇ ἱκετείᾳ têi hiketeíāi	τοῖν ἱκετείαιν toîn hiketeíain	ταῖς ἱκετείαις taîs hiketeíais
Accusative	τὴν ἱκετείᾱν tḕn hiketeíān	τὼ ἱκετείᾱ tṑ hiketeíā	τᾱ̀ς ἱκετείᾱς tā̀s hiketeíās
Vocative	ἱκετείᾱ hiketeíā	ἱκετείᾱ hiketeíā	ἱκετεῖαι hiketeîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἱκετεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἱκετεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • appeal idem, page 34.
  • entreaty idem, page 278.
  • petition idem, page 609.
  • prayer idem, page 632.
  • supplication idem, page 840.