Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 ‎(a-si-wi-ja) Mycenaean
• Ἀσίη ‎(Asíē) Ionic

Proper noun

Ᾱ̆̓σῐ́ᾱ • ‎(Āsíā) f ‎(genitive Ἀσίας); first declension

1. Anatolia
2. Asia

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἀσιαγενής ‎(Asiagenḗs)
• Ἀσιανός ‎(Asianós)
• Ἀσιαρχέω ‎(Asiarkhéō)
• Ἀσιάρχης ‎(Asiárkhēs)
• Ἀσιαρχία ‎(Asiarkhía)
• Ἀσιαρχός ‎(Asiarkhós)
• Ἀσιάς ‎(Asiás)
• Ἀσιάτης ‎(Asiátēs)
• Ἀσιατικός ‎(Asiatikós)
• Ἀσιᾶτις ‎(Asiâtis)
• Ἀσιατογεγής ‎(Asiatogegḗs)
• Ἀσίηθεν ‎(Asíēthen)
• Ἀσίς ‎(Asís)

Descendants

• Greek: Ασία ‎(Asía)
• Latin: Asia

References

• Ἀσία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἀσία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Ἀσία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Ἀσία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G773”, 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.
  • Asia idem, page 1002.
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,002, 1,003

1. ↑ Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.