Graecia

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Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós)bor.

Latin Graecus

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)der.

Ancient Greek -υς (-us)?

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)?

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.

Ancient Greek -ιᾰ (-iă)

Ancient Greek -ειᾰ (-eiă)der.

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)

Ancient Greek -ειᾰ (-eiă)der.

Latin -ia

Latin Graecia

From Graecus + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrae̯.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɛː.t͡ʃi.a]

Proper noun

Graecia f sg (genitive Graeciae); first declension

1. Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)

   Synonym: Hellas

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Graecia
genitive	Graeciae
dative	Graeciae
accusative	Graeciam
ablative	Graeciā
vocative	Graecia

Derived terms

• Magna Graecia

Related terms

Graecia

• Graeculus
• graecus
• Grāiugena
• Grāius

Descendants

Ancient borrowings

• → Irish: An Ghréig

Modern borrowings

• → Albanian: Greqia
• → Aromanian: Gãrtsia
• → Catalan: Grècia
• → Galician: Grecia
• → Italian: Grecia
• → Old French: Grece
  • French: Grèce
  • → Middle English: Grece
    • English: Greece (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle French: Græce (learned)
  • French: Græce
• → Portuguese: Grécia
• → Romanian: Grecia
• → Sicilian: Grecia
• → Spanish: Grecia

References

• “Graecia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Graecia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.