καδμεία

See also: Καδμεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰδμήᾱ (kadmḗā), κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmíā)

Etymology

From Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “Cadmea”), ultimately probably from Proto-Semitic *q-d-m.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kad.měː.aː/ → /kaðˈmi.a/ → /kaðˈmi.a/

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

Noun

κᾰδμείᾱ • (kadmeíā) f (genitive κᾰδμείᾱς); first declension

1. cadmia, calamine (a pale pink zinc oxide collected on furnace walls upon zinc sublimation)
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 5.74
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 1.413
   • PTeb., 273 14

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰδμείᾱ; τῆς κᾰδμείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰδμείᾱ hē kadmeíā	τὼ κᾰδμείᾱ tṑ kadmeíā	αἱ κᾰδμεῖαι hai kadmeîai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰδμείᾱς tês kadmeíās	τοῖν κᾰδμείαιν toîn kadmeíain	τῶν κᾰδμειῶν tôn kadmeiôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰδμείᾳ têi kadmeíāi	τοῖν κᾰδμείαιν toîn kadmeíain	ταῖς κᾰδμείαις taîs kadmeíais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰδμείᾱν tḕn kadmeíān	τὼ κᾰδμείᾱ tṑ kadmeíā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰδμείᾱς tā̀s kadmeíās
Vocative	κᾰδμείᾱ kadmeíā	κᾰδμείᾱ kadmeíā	κᾰδμεῖαι kadmeîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: cadmī̆a

References

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

Further reading

• Cadmia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia