στρατηγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From στρατηγέω (stratēgéō, “to be the leader of an army”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stra.tɛː.ɡí.aː/ → /stra.tiˈʝi.a/ → /stra.tiˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stra.tɛː.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /stra.te̝ˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/

Noun

στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ • (stratēgíā) f (genitive στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. office of general, command
   1. period of command, campaign
2. generalship
3. province governed by a στρατηγός

Inflection

First declension of ἡ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ hē stratēgíā	τὼ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ tṑ stratēgíā	αἱ στρᾰτηγῐ́αι hai stratēgíai
Genitive	τῆς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς tês stratēgíās	τοῖν στρᾰτηγῐ́αιν toîn stratēgíain	τῶν στρᾰτηγῐῶν tôn stratēgiôn
Dative	τῇ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾳ têi stratēgíāi	τοῖν στρᾰτηγῐ́αιν toîn stratēgíain	ταῖς στρᾰτηγῐ́αις taîs stratēgíais
Accusative	τὴν στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱν tḕn stratēgíān	τὼ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ tṑ stratēgíā	τᾱ̀ς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s stratēgíās
Vocative	στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ stratēgíā	στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ stratēgíā	στρᾰτηγῐ́αι stratēgíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: stratēgia
  • → English: strategy
  • → French: stratégie

Further reading

• “στρατηγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στρατηγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • captaincy idem, page 112.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • generalship idem, page 356.
  • praetorship idem, page 631.
  • strategy idem, page 823.