ὄα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHweh₂ (“yew”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.aː/ → /ˈo.a/ → /ˈo.a/

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

Noun

ὄᾱ • (óā) f (genitive ὄᾱς); first declension

1. The service tree (Sorbus domestica), whose fruit is the ὄον

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄᾱ; τῆς ὄᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄᾱ hē óā	τὼ ὄᾱ tṑ óā	αἱ ὄαι hai óai
Genitive	τῆς ὄᾱς tês óās	τοῖν ὄαιν toîn óain	τῶν ὀῶν tôn oôn
Dative	τῇ ὄᾳ têi óāi	τοῖν ὄαιν toîn óain	ταῖς ὄαις taîs óais
Accusative	τὴν ὄᾱν tḕn óān	τὼ ὄᾱ tṑ óā	τᾱ̀ς ὄᾱς tā̀s óās
Vocative	ὄᾱ óā	ὄᾱ óā	ὄαι óai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ὄα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette