Ασία
See also: Ἀσία
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asía).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ασία • (Asía) f (usually uncountable, plural Ασίες)
- Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
- (historical) Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)
Declension
[edit]Usually in the singular.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Ασία (Asía) | Ασίες (Asíes) |
| genitive | Ασίας (Asías) | Ασιών (Asión) |
| accusative | Ασία (Asía) | Ασίες (Asíes) |
| vocative | Ασία (Asía) | Ασίες (Asíes) |
Derived terms
[edit]- ασιανολογία f (asianología, “Asian studies”)
- ασιανολόγος m or f (asianológos, “Orientalist”)
- ασιανός (asianós, “Asian, Asiatic”, adjective)
- Ασιάτης m (Asiátis, “Asian”)
- ασιατικός (asiatikós, “Asian, Asiatic”, adjective)
- Ασιάτισσα f (Asiátissa, “Asian”)
Further reading
[edit]
Ασία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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- Greek terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Greek learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek lemmas
- Greek proper nouns
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- el:Asia
- el:Continents and continental regions
- Greek terms with historical senses
- el:Provinces of the Roman Empire
- el:Places in the Roman Empire
- el:Places in Turkey
- Greek nouns declining like 'ιστορία'