Ἀδρίας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἀδρίης (Adríēs) — Ionic

Etymology

From Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱ (Adríā, “Adria”) +‎ -ᾱς (-ās).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.drí.aːs/ → /aˈðri.as/ → /aˈðri.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.drí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈdri.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈðri.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈðri.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈðri.as/

Proper noun

Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱς • (Adríās) m (genitive Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ου); first declension

1. Adriatic Sea
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Diogeiton 25:

     καὶ ἀποπέμψας εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν ὁλκάδα δυοῖν ταλάντοιν, (...)

     kaì apopémpsas eis tòn Adrían holkáda duoîn talántoin, (...)

     Again, when he had dispatched a merchant vessel with two talents' worth onto the Adriatic Sea, (...)

Declension

First declension of ὁ Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱς ho Adríās
Genitive	τοῦ Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ου toû Adríou
Dative	τῷ Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾳ tôi Adríāi
Accusative	τὸν Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱν tòn Adríān
Vocative	Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱ Adríā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓δρῐᾰκός (Adriakós)
• Ᾰ̓δρῐᾱνῐκός (Adriānikós)
• Ᾰ̓δρῐᾱνός (Adriānós)
• Ᾰ̓δρῐᾰ́ς (Adriás)
• Ᾰ̓δρῐᾱτῐκός (Adriātikós)
• Ᾰ̓δρῐηνός (Adriēnós)

Descendants

• Greek: Αδρίας (Adrías)
• Latin: Adrias

Further reading

• “Ἀδρίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἀδρίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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
• Ἀδρίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G99 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999
• Ἀδρίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ἀδρίας - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.