κονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κονῐ́η (koníē) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From κόνις (kónis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.ní.aː/ → /koˈni.a/ → /koˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈni.a/

Noun

κονῐ́ᾱ • (koníā) f (genitive κονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. dust, as stirred up by men's feet
   1. sand, soil
   2. (in the plural) ashes
2. a fine powder, sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent
3. powdered lime, plaster, stucco
4. any kind of lyes or alkaline carbonates made from ashes and used for washing

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κονῐ́ᾱ hē koníā	αἱ κονῐ́αι hai koníai
Genitive	τῆς κονῐ́ᾱς tês koníās	τῶν κονῐῶν tôn koniôn
Dative	τῇ κονῐ́ᾳ têi koníāi	ταῖς κονῐ́αις taîs koníais
Accusative	τὴν κονῐ́ᾱν tḕn koníān	τᾱ̀ς κονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koníās
Vocative	κονῐ́ᾱ koníā	κονῐ́αι koníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܢܝܐ (qōnyā)

References

• “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lye idem, page 506.
  • powder idem, page 630.