ἀρτηρία

See also: αρτηρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀρτηρῐ́η (artēríē) — Ionic

Etymology

Supposed contraction of *ἀορτηρία (cf. ἀορτήρ (aortḗr)), from ἀείρω (aeírō, “to bind, hang up”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.tɛː.rí.aː/ → /ar.tiˈri.a/ → /ar.tiˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.tɛː.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.te̝ˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.tiˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.tiˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.tiˈri.a/

Noun

ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ • (artēríā) f (genitive ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. artery
2. windpipe, trachea
3. (in the plural) bronchi

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ hē artēríā	τὼ ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ artēríā	αἱ ἀρτηρῐ́αι hai artēríai
Genitive	τῆς ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱς tês artēríās	τοῖν ἀρτηρῐ́αιν toîn artēríain	τῶν ἀρτηρῐῶν tôn artēriôn
Dative	τῇ ἀρτηρῐ́ᾳ têi artēríāi	τοῖν ἀρτηρῐ́αιν toîn artēríain	ταῖς ἀρτηρῐ́αις taîs artēríais
Accusative	τὴν ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱν tḕn artēríān	τὼ ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ artēríā	τᾱ̀ς ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s artēríās
Vocative	ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ artēríā	ἀρτηρῐ́ᾱ artēríā	ἀρτηρῐ́αι artēríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρτηρία ἡ τραχεῖα (artēría hē trakheîa, “windpipe”)

Descendants

• Russian: арте́рия (artérija)

Further reading

• “ἀρτηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀρτηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρτηρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρτηρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • artery idem, page 42.
  • windpipe idem, page 981.