Μακεδονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μᾰκεδονῐ́η (Makedoníē) — Ionic
• Μᾰκηδονῐ́ᾱ (Makēdoníā)

Etymology

From Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn, “Macedonian”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/ → /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/ → /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.ke.doˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/

Proper noun

Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ • (Makedoníā) f (genitive Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Macedon; Macedonia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ hē Makedoníā
Genitive	τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς tês Makedoníās
Dative	τῇ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾳ têi Makedoníāi
Accusative	τὴν Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱν tḕn Makedoníān
Vocative	Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ Makedoníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn)
• Μᾰκεδονῐκός (Makedonikós)

Descendants

• Albanian: Maqedonia
• Alemannic German: Makedonien
• Arabic: مَقَدُونْيَا (maqadūnyā)
• Armenian: Մակեդոնիա (Makedonia)
• Aromanian: Machedonia
• Asturian: Macedonia
• Azerbaijani: Makedoniya
• Basque: Mazedonia
• Belarusian: Македонія (Makjedónija)
• Breton: Makedonia
• Bulgarian: Македония (Makedonija)
• Catalan: Macedònia
• Cebuano: Macedonia
• Chuvash: Makedoni
• Czech: Makedonie
• Danish: Makedonien
• Dutch: Macedonië
• English: Macedonia
• Estonian: Makedoonia
• Faroese: Makedónia
• Finnish: Makedonia
• Franco-Provençal: Macèdonie
• French: Macédoine
• West Frisian: Masedoanje
• Galician: Macedonia
• Georgian: მაკედონია (maḳedonia)
• German: Makedonien
• → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰 (makidōnja)
• Greek: Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
• Haitian Creole: Masedoni
• Hebrew: מקדוניה (Makedonya)
• Hindi: मैसिडोनिया (maisiḍoniyā)
• Hungarian: Macedónia
• Icelandic: Makedónía
• Indonesian: Makedonia
• Italian: Macedonia
• Japanese: マケドニア (Makedonia)
• Low German: Makedonien

• Kazakh: Македония (Makedoniä)
• Korean: 마케도니아 (Makedonia)
• Latin: Macedonia
• Latvian: Maķedonija
• Limburgish: Macedonië
• Lithuanian: Makedonija
• Macedonian: Македонија (Makedonija)
• Malay: Macedonia
• Manx: Yn Vasseydoan
• Nepali: म्यासेडोनिया (myāseḍoniyā)
• Northern Kurdish: Makedonya
• Norwegian: Makedonia
• Occitan: Macedònia
• Pashto: مقدونيه
• Persian: مقدونیه
• Piedmontese: Macedònia
• Polish: Macedonia
• Portuguese: Macedónia
• Quechua: Makidunya
• Romanian: Macedonia
• Romani: Makedoniya
• Russian: Македония (Makedonija)
• Northern Sami: Makedonia
• Samogitian: Makedonėjė
• Serbo-Croatian: Македонија, Makedonija
• Sicilian: Macidonia
• Slovak: Macedónsko
• Slovene: Makedonija
• Spanish: Macedonia
• Swahili: Masedonia
• Swedish: Makedonien
• Tagalog: Masedonya
• Turkish: Makedonya
• Ukrainian: Македонія (Makedonija)
• Upper Sorbian: Makedonska
• Uzbek: Makedoniya
• Võro: Makõdoonia
• Welsh: Macedonia
• Winaray: Masedonya

Further reading

• “Μακεδονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ (Makedoníā).

Proper noun

Μακεδονία • (Makedonía) f

1. Macedon, Macedonia, an ancient kingdom situated in the contemporary Balkans
2. (political division) Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece
3. (geography) Macedonia, a broader region of the Balkan peninsula which includes the Greek region of Macedonia, North Macedonia and a bit of Bulgaria
4. (rare outside longer phrases) Macedonia, the country to the north of Greece: Βόρεια Μακεδονία (North Macedonia) formerly known as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia of Yugoslavia (see Usage notes)
   • 1979, Giannēs Iōannidēs, Alekos Papapanagiōtou, "Αναμνήσεις" (Anamnēseis: provlēmata tēs politikēs tou KKE stēn ethnikē antistasē, 1940-1945) (Mémoires: problems of the Greek Communist Party policy during national Resistance 1940-1945), page 519 @books.google. (polytonic script):

     […] ἔφυγε ἀπό την ἕδρα τοῦ Γενικοῦ Στρατηγείου τοῦ ΛΑΣΓ στά τέλη τοῦ Όκτώβρη 1942 καί ἔφτασε στή Μακεδονία (Σκόπια) κατά τό Μάρτη τοῦ 1943.

     […] (he) left from the headquarters of LASG [People's Liberating Army of Yugoslavia] in the end of October 1942 and arrived at Macedonia (Skopje) approximately in March of 1943.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Μακεδονία.

Usage notes

• For the country "Republic of Macedonia" see "Macedonia naming dispute" on Wikipedia.) Expressions for the country in the 20th century included: "Ομόσπονδη Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Federal Republic of Macedonia"), "Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("People's Republic of Macedonia"), "Σοσιαλιστική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Socialist Republic of Macedonia"), post-Yugoslav bare "Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("Republic of Macedonia"), and "πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας" ("FYROM" Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).

Declension

  Μακεδονία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Μακεδονία •
genitive	Μακεδονίας •
accusative	Μακεδονία •
vocative	Μακεδονία •

Related terms

• Βόρεια Μακεδονία f (Vóreia Makedonía, “North Macedonia”) (Republic of North Macedonia)
• Μακεδόνας m (Makedónas, “male Macedonian”)
• Μακεδονίτης m (Makedonítis, “male Macedonian”)
• Μακεδόνισσα f (Makedónissa, “female Macedonian”)
• Μακεδονίτισσα f (Makedonítissa, “female Macedonian”)
• μακεδονικός (makedonikós, “Macedonian”, adjective)
• μακεδονίτικος (makedonítikos, “Macedonian”, adjective)
• μακεδονομάχος m (makedonomáchos, “Macedonian warrior”)
• παμμακεδονικός (pammakedonikós, “pan-Macedonian”, adjective)

 

See also

• Μακεδονία on Wikipedia.Wikipedia