-ία

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See also: -ια, -ιά, ἰά, ἴα, and Appendix:Variations of "ia"

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Like -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂. Cognate with Latin -ia.

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

-ῐ́ᾱ • (-íā) f (genitive -ῐ́ᾱς); first declension

Added to stems of adjectives, rarely to the stems of verbs, and even more rarely to the stems of nouns, to form feminine abstract nouns

Inflection

First declension of -ῐ́ᾱ; -ῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́αι -íai
Genitive	-ῐ́ᾱς -íās	-ῐ́αιν -íain	-ῐῶν -iôn
Dative	-ῐ́ᾳ -íāi	-ῐ́αιν -íain	-ῐ́αις -íais
Accusative	-ῐ́ᾱν -íān	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱς -íās
Vocative	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́ᾱ -íā	-ῐ́αι -íai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

-ίνα (-ína)

Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία

Descendants

English: -ia
French: -ie

References

Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈia/

Suffix

-ία • (-ía) f

added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
‎Γάλλος (Gállos, “French”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Γαλλία (Gallía, “France”)

‎Τούρκος (Toúrkos, “Turk”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Τουρκία (Tourkía, “Turkey”)

‎Άγγλος (Ánglos, “English”) + ‎-ία (-ía) → ‎Αγγλία (Anglía, “England”)

Declension

declension of -ία

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	-ία •	-ίες •
genitive	-ίας •	-ιών •
accusative	-ία •	-ίες •
vocative	-ία •	-ίες •

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