ζειρά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Thracian *zeirá (“that which is worn on the shoulders”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdeː.rǎː/ → /ziˈra/ → /ziˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdeː.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ziˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ziˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ziˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈra/

Noun

ζειρᾱ́ • (zeirā́) f (genitive ζειρᾶς); first declension

1. A wide upper garment worn by Arabians and Thracians

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ζειρᾱ́; τῆς ζειρᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζειρᾱ́ hē zeirā́	τὼ ζειρᾱ́ tṑ zeirā́	αἱ ζειραί hai zeiraí
Genitive	τῆς ζειρᾶς tês zeirâs	τοῖν ζειραῖν toîn zeiraîn	τῶν ζειρῶν tôn zeirôn
Dative	τῇ ζειρᾷ têi zeirâi	τοῖν ζειραῖν toîn zeiraîn	ταῖς ζειραῖς taîs zeiraîs
Accusative	τὴν ζειρᾱ́ν tḕn zeirā́n	τὼ ζειρᾱ́ tṑ zeirā́	τᾱ̀ς ζειρᾱ́ς tā̀s zeirā́s
Vocative	ζειρᾱ́ zeirā́	ζειρᾱ́ zeirā́	ζειραί zeiraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ζειρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζειρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN