ὑγρασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet, moist, flexible”) +‎ -ασίᾱ (-asíā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.ɡra.sí.aː/ → /y.ɣraˈsi.a/ → /i.ɣraˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.ɡra.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.ɡraˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.ɣraˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.ɣraˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ɣraˈsi.a/

Noun

ὑγρᾰσίᾱ • (hugrasíā) f (genitive ὑγρᾰσίᾱς); first declension

1. moisture, humidity

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱ; τῆς ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱ hē hugrasíā
Genitive	τῆς ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱς tês hugrasíās
Dative	τῇ ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾳ têi hugrasíāi
Accusative	τὴν ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱν tḕn hugrasíān
Vocative	ὑ̆γρᾰσίᾱ hugrasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὑγρασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑγρασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὑγρασία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011