μία

See also: μια, μιᾷ, and Appendix:Variations of "mia"

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sm-ih₂, zero grade of *sḗm.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mí.a/ → /ˈmi.a/ → /ˈmi.a/

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

Numeral

μῐ́ᾰ • (mĭ́ă)

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of εἷς (heîs)

Further reading

• “μία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μία”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μία in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3391 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Alternative forms

• μια (mia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.a/ (compare to μια)
• Hyphenation: μί‧α

Article

μία • (mía)

1. (indefinite) nominative/accusative of ένας (énas, “a, an”)

Numeral

μία • (mía) f

1. (cardinal numbers) nominative/accusative of ένας (énas, “one”)

Declension

Declension of ένας

	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ένας (énas)	μια (mia) μία1 (mía1)	ένα (éna)
genitive	ενός (enós)	μιας (mias) μίας1 (mías1)	ενός (enós)
accusative	ένα (éna) έναν2 (énan2)	μια (mia) μιαν2 (mian2) μία1 (mía1) μίαν1+2 (mían1+2)	ένα (éna)

1. Emphatic forms that stress singularity.
2. Optional alternatives used before vowels or the consonants π, μπ, τ, ντ, κ, γγ and γκ.

Usage notes

• The stressed form of μια (mia), which is used to emphasise numbers.

  Μία μπίρα; Θέλαμε δύο! ― Mía bíra? Thélame dýo! ― One beer? We wanted two!

See also

• Greek number and measurement