ζυγία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), because the field maple was mainly used to make yokes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdy.ɡí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /zyˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ziˈʝi.a/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ hē zugíā |
τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zugíā |
αἱ ζῠγῐ́αι hai zugíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tês zugíās |
τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zugíain |
τῶν ζῠγῐῶν tôn zugiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ζῠγῐ́ᾳ têi zugíāi |
τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zugíain |
ταῖς ζῠγῐ́αις taîs zugíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ζῠγῐ́ᾱν tḕn zugíān |
τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zugíā |
τᾱ̀ς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s zugíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zugíā |
ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zugíā |
ζῠγῐ́αι zugíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ζῠ́γῐνος (zúginos)
Further reading
- “ζυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζυγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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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