ἀνθολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower, blossom”) +‎ λόγος (lógos, “account”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tʰo.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/ → /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tʰo.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /an.tʰo.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /an.θo.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ • (anthologĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. The act of gathering flowers; flowerpicking.
2. (figuratively) a collection of poems; anthology

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ hē anthologĭ́ā	τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologĭ́ā	αἱ ἀνθολογῐ́αι hai anthologĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tês anthologĭ́ās	τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologĭ́ain	τῶν ἀνθολογῐῶν tôn anthologĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾳ tēî anthologĭ́āi	τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologĭ́ain	ταῖς ἀνθολογῐ́αις taîs anthologĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn anthologĭ́ān	τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s anthologĭ́ās
Vocative	ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologĭ́ā	ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologĭ́ā	ἀνθολογῐ́αι anthologĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ανθολογία (anthología)
• → Asturian: antoloxía
• → Catalan: antologia
• → Czech: antologie
• → Danish: antologi
• → English: anthology
  • → Japanese: アンソロジー (ansorojī)
  • → Malay: antologi
• → Finnish: antologia
• → French: anthologie
  • → Dutch: anthologie
  • → Romanian: antologie
  • → Walloon: antolodjeye
• → Galician: antoloxía
• → German: Anthologie
• → Hebrew: אנתולוגיה (antológya)
• → Hungarian: antológia
• → Italian: antologia
• → Latvian: antoloģija
• → Norwegian: antologi
• → Polish: antologia
• → Portuguese: antologia
• → Russian: антоло́гия (antológija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: антоло̀гија (antològija)
• → Spanish: antología
• → Swedish: antologi
• → Turkish: antoloji
• → Ukrainian: антоло́гія (antolóhija)
• → Yiddish: אַנטאָלאָגיע (antologye)
• → Renaissance Latin: flōrilegium (calque)

References

• “ἀνθολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀνθολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνθολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀνθολογία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)