καυσία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Furnée refers to γαύσαπος (gaúsapos, “woolen cloth”). Alternatively, from Proto-Scythian *xauδiya via Thracian.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kau̯.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaʍˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaɸˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kafˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kafˈsi.a/
Noun
καυσῐ́ᾱ • (kausíā) f (genitive καυσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- royal hat made of felt, used by Macedonians
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ καυσῐ́ᾱ hē kausíā |
τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausíā |
αἱ καυσῐ́αι hai kausíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς καυσῐ́ᾱς tês kausíās |
τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausíain |
τῶν καυσῐῶν tôn kausiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ καυσῐ́ᾳ têi kausíāi |
τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausíain |
ταῖς καυσῐ́αις taîs kausíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν καυσῐ́ᾱν tḕn kausíān |
τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausíā |
τᾱ̀ς καυσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kausíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | καυσῐ́ᾱ kausíā |
καυσῐ́ᾱ kausíā |
καυσῐ́αι kausíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “καυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καυσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN