Μεσοποταμία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The feminine substantive form of the adjective μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios) from μέσος (mésos, “middle, between”) and ποταμός (potamós, “river”), compare with the Hebrew אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.so.po.ta.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.so.po.taˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.so.po.taˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.so.po.taˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.so.po.taˈmi.a/
Proper noun
Μεσοποταμίᾱ • (Mesopotamíā) f (genitive Μεσοποταμίᾱς); first declension
- Mesopotamia, the region lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Μεσοποτᾰμίᾱ hē Mesopotamíā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Μεσοποτᾰμίᾱς tês Mesopotamíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Μεσοποτᾰμίᾳ têi Mesopotamíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Μεσοποτᾰμίᾱν tḕn Mesopotamíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μεσοποτᾰμίᾱ Mesopotamíā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: Mesopotamia
- → Catalan: Mesopotàmia
- → English: Mesopotamia
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3318 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN