Σελεύκεια
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Σελευκείᾱ (Seleukeíā), Σελευκίᾱ (Seleukíā)
Etymology
From Σέλευκος (Séleukos, “Seleucus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), the name of Seleucus I Nicator the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty and several of his descendants.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.lěu̯.keː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈlew.ki.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈleɸ.ci.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈlef.ci.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈlef.ci.a/
Proper noun
Σελεύκειᾰ • (Seleúkeia) f (genitive Σελευκείᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Σελεύκειᾰ hē Seleúkeia | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Σελευκείᾱς tês Seleukeíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Σελευκείᾳ têi Seleukeíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Σελεύκειᾰν tḕn Seleúkeian | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Σελεύκειᾰ Seleúkeia | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- 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
- G4581 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
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