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Ἀχαΐα
Ἀχαΐα
Ancient Greek
Proper noun
Ἀχᾱΐᾱ • (Akhāḯā) f (genitive Ἀχᾱΐᾱς); first declension
- Achaea, a region on the north coast of the Peloponnese in Greece.
- Achaea, a province of the Roman Empire, comprising the majority of Greece.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ | τὼ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ | αἱ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱς | τοῖν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαιν | τῶν Ᾰ̓χᾱϊῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾳ | τοῖν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαιν | ταῖς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱν | τὼ Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ | τᾱ̀ς Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ | Ᾰ̓χᾱΐᾱ | Ᾰ̓χᾱΐαι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- Ᾰ̓χαιός (Akhaiós)
- Ᾰ̓χαιῐκός (Akhaiikós)
- Ᾰ̓χαιῐ́ς (Akhaiís)
Descendants
- Greek: Αχαΐα (Achaḯa), Αχαγιά (Achagiá)
- Latin: Achaea
References
- Ἀχαΐα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- «Ἀχαΐα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G882”, 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, page 999