ἑψία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐψία (epsía)
• ἑψίη (hepsíē) — Ionic
• ψιά (psiá)

Etymology

Schaffner reconstructs an Proto-Indo-European root with Germanic reflexes. According to Beekes, the presence of variations leads to a Pre-Greek origin, but Nikolaev rejects this.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hep.sí.aː/ → /epˈsi.a/ → /epˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hep.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)epˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /epˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /epˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /epˈsi.a/

Noun

ἑψῐ́ᾱ • (hepsíā) f (genitive ἑψῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. amusement; plaything

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἑψῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἑψῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἑψῐ́ᾱ hē hepsíā	τὼ ἑψῐ́ᾱ tṑ hepsíā	αἱ ἑψῐ́αι hai hepsíai
Genitive	τῆς ἑψῐ́ᾱς tês hepsíās	τοῖν ἑψῐ́αιν toîn hepsíain	τῶν ἑψῐῶν tôn hepsiôn
Dative	τῇ ἑψῐ́ᾳ têi hepsíāi	τοῖν ἑψῐ́αιν toîn hepsíain	ταῖς ἑψῐ́αις taîs hepsíais
Accusative	τὴν ἑψῐ́ᾱν tḕn hepsíān	τὼ ἑψῐ́ᾱ tṑ hepsíā	τᾱ̀ς ἑψῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hepsíās
Vocative	ἑψῐ́ᾱ hepsíā	ἑψῐ́ᾱ hepsíā	ἑψῐ́αι hepsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἑψιάομαι (hepsiáomai)
• ὁμέψιος (homépsios)
• φιλέψιος (philépsios)

 

Further reading

• “ἑψία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἑψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑψία”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 491-492