Στοιχάδες

See also: στοιχάδες

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A substantivisation of στοιχάς (stoikhás, “in rows one behind another”, adjective), in elliptical use for αἱ στοιχάδες [νῆσοι] (hai stoikhádes [nêsoi]), used as a proper noun. Compare Κυκλάδες (Kukládes) and Σποράδες (Sporádes).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stoi̯.kʰá.des/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /styˈkʰa.des/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /styˈxa.ðes/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /styˈxa.ðes/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stiˈxa.ðes/

Proper noun

Στοιχᾰ́δες • (Stoikhádes) f pl (genitive Στοιχᾰ́δων); third declension

a row of islands off Marseille, now the Frioul archipelago
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, 4 554
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 184

Declension

Third declension of αἱ Στοιχᾰ́δες; τῶν Στοιχᾰ́δων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Στοιχᾰ́δες hai Stoikhádes
Genitive	τῶν Στοιχᾰ́δων tôn Stoikhádōn
Dative	ταῖς Στοιχᾰ́σῐ / Στοιχᾰ́σῐν taîs Stoikhási(n)
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Στοιχᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s Stoikhádas
Vocative	Στοιχᾰ́δες Stoikhádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

References

‹αἱ Στοιχάδες› s.v. sense I of «στοιχάς» on page 1,432/2 of Liddell & Scott’s Greek–English Lexicon (8th ed., 1897), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press