Πιερία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Πῑ́ερες (Pī́eres, “Pierians”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Πῑερῐ́ᾱ • (Pīeríā) f (genitive Πῑερῐ́ᾱς); first declension

  1. Pieria, Macedonia, Greece

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Πῑερῐ́ᾱ
hē Pīeríā
Genitive τῆς Πῑερῐ́ᾱς
tês Pīeríās
Dative τῇ Πῑερῐ́ᾳ
têi Pīeríāi
Accusative τὴν Πῑερῐ́ᾱν
tḕn Pīeríān
Vocative Πῑερῐ́ᾱ
Pīeríā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Πιερία (Piería)
  • Latin: Pīeria

References
  • “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Πιερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022
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