σημεία

• σημαίᾱ (sēmaíā), σημέᾱ (sēméā)

From σῆμᾰ (sêma, “mark, sign”) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā).^[1]

σημείᾱ • (sēmeíā) f (genitive σημείᾱς); first declension

1. a military standard, an ensign, a signum militare
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.32.6
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cicero 16
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 13:

     προελθόντος δὲ τοῦ Φαβίου, θέμενος ἔμπροσθεν τὰς σημαίας, αὐτὸς μὲν ἐκεῖνον πατέρα μεγάλῃ φωνῇ, οἱ δὲ στρατιῶται τοὺς στρατιώτας πάτρωνας ἠσπάζοντο· τοῦτο δ’ ἔστι τοῖς ἀπελευθέροις προσφώνημα πρὸς τοὺς ἀπελευθερώσαντας.

     proelthóntos dè toû Phabíou, thémenos émprosthen tàs sēmaías, autòs mèn ekeînon patéra megálēi phōnêi, hoi dè stratiôtai toùs stratiṓtas pátrōnas ēspázonto; toûto d’ ésti toîs apeleuthérois prosphṓnēma pròs toùs apeleutherṓsantas.

   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.65
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.13
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 30.17
   • Mon.Anc. 15.23
   • Mon.Anc. 16.3
   1. a military standard as a decoration, translating the Latin vēxillum
      • C.E. 1st century, Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 560.13, (from Tlos)
   2. a body of troops under one standard, translating the Latin manipulus

      Synonyms: σημεῖον n (sēmeîon), σπεῖρᾰ f (speîra)

      • 2nd century BCE, UPZ 14.23
      • 2nd century BCE, Sammelb. 1436.10
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.33.9
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.113.3
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.24.5
2. an image of the Emperor on a standard, translating the Latin signum
   • 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 2.9.2
3. a (heraldic) device or bearing on an ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”)

   Synonym: σῆμᾰ n (sêma)

   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 963, (scholion)
4. (meaning uncertain) perhaps a milestone

   Synonym: σημεῖον n (sēmeîon)

   • Inscriptiones Graecae 7.3073.138, (from Lebadea):

     διαξέσας σημείας

     diaxésas sēmeías

• 2nd century BCE, UPZ 18.5
• 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 20.90
• 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.64
• C.E. 2nd century, Abh.Berl.Akad. 1932.5.41, (from Pergamum)

• Greek: σημαία (simaía)

• “σημεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σημαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σημαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σημαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σημαία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σημεία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn

• IPA^(key): /siˈmi.a/
• Hyphenation: ση‧μεί‧α

σημεία • (simeía) n

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of σημείο (simeío).