ἀνθολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

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 • (anthologíā) f (genitive ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ hē anthologíā	τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologíā	αἱ ἀνθολογῐ́αι hai anthologíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tês anthologíās	τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologíain	τῶν ἀνθολογῐῶν tôn anthologiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾳ têi anthologíāi	τοῖν ἀνθολογῐ́αιν toîn anthologíain	ταῖς ἀνθολογῐ́αις taîs anthologíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn anthologíān	τὼ ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthologíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s anthologíās
Vocative	ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologíā	ἀνθολογῐ́ᾱ anthologíā	ἀνθολογῐ́αι anthologíai
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
• → Dutch: anthologie
• → English: anthology
  • → Japanese: アンソロジー (ansorojī)
  • → Malay: antologi
• → Finnish: antologia
• → French: anthologie
• → Galician: antoloxía
• → German: Anthologie
• → Hungarian: antológia
• → Italian: antologia
• → Latvian: antoloģija
• → Norwegian: antologi
• → Polish: antologia
• → Portuguese: antologia
• → Romanian: antologie
• → Russian: антоло́гия (antológija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: антоло̀гија (antològija)
• → Spanish: antología
• → Swedish: antologi
• → Walloon: antolodjeye
• → 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 (2006–2024)