Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xsenía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ksenía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ksenía/

Noun

ξενίᾱ • ‎(xeníā) f ‎(genitive ξενίας); first declension

1. hospitality, hospitable reception, entertainment
2. guest room
3. friendly relations
4. the state/rights of a foreigner
5. the idea that all strangers have a right to a certain gift, whether it is food, gold, entertainment or a place to stay

Inflection

Alternative forms

• ξενίη ‎(xeníē) (Epic)
• ξεινίη ‎(xeiníē) (Ionic)

Adjective

ξενία • ‎(xenía)

1. feminine nominative singular of ξένιος ‎(xénios)
2. feminine vocative singular of ξένιος ‎(xénios)
3. feminine nominative dual of ξένιος ‎(xénios)
4. feminine accusative dual of ξένιος ‎(xénios)
5. feminine vocative dual of ξένιος ‎(xénios)

References

• ξενία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ξενία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ξενία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• ξενία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3578”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hospitality idem, page 407.