Ἰνδία

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See also: Ινδία

Ancient Greek

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Indian subcontinent

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Indies

Etymology

From Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

Compare Persian (hend), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /in.dí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/

Proper noun

Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ • (Indíā) f (genitive Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ hē Indíā
Genitive	τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς tês Indíās
Dative	τῇ Ἰνδῐ́ᾳ têi Indíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἰνδῐ́ᾱν tḕn Indíān
Vocative	Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ Indíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ινδία (Indía)
Latin: India, indicus

References

“Ἰνδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013

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