βασίλεια

See also: βασιλεία and βασίλειον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine ending); see also -εια (-eia). Intervocalic ι (i) developed from a sonorant cluster /wj/, which assimilated to /jj/, then became the second element in the diphthong ει (ei). The formation is thus *βασίλεϝ-ι̯ᾰ (*basílew-i̯a) > *βασίλει̯-ι̯ᾰ (*basílei̯-i̯a) > βασίλειᾰ (basíleia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ba.sí.leː.a/ → /βaˈsi.li.a/ → /vaˈsi.li.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ba.sí.leː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /baˈsi.li.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βaˈsi.li.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vaˈsi.li.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vaˈsi.li.a/

Noun

βασίλειᾰ • (basíleia) f (genitive βασιλείᾱς); first declension

1. princess, queen, noble woman

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βασίλειᾰ; τῆς βασιλείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βασίλειᾰ hē basíleia	τὼ βασιλείᾱ tṑ basileíā	αἱ βασίλειαι hai basíleiai
Genitive	τῆς βασιλείᾱς tês basileíās	τοῖν βασιλείαιν toîn basileíain	τῶν βασιλειῶν tôn basileiôn
Dative	τῇ βασιλείᾳ têi basileíāi	τοῖν βασιλείαιν toîn basileíain	ταῖς βασιλείαις taîs basileíais
Accusative	τὴν βασίλειᾰν tḕn basíleian	τὼ βασιλείᾱ tṑ basileíā	τᾱ̀ς βασιλείᾱς tā̀s basileíās
Vocative	βασίλειᾰ basíleia	βασιλείᾱ basileíā	βασίλειαι basíleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βασίλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βασίλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βασίλεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βασίλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βασίλεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βασίλεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βασίλεια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • castle idem, page 117.
  • court idem, page 179.
  • palace idem, page 589.
  • princess idem, page 641.
  • queen idem, page 664.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 221
• Paul Kiparsky, "Sonorant Clusters in Greek", Language, Vol. 43, No. 3, Part 1, pp. 619-635: Sep. 1967

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Greek

Noun

βασίλεια • (vasíleia) n

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of βασίλειο (vasíleio).