Ὀλυμπία

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See also: Ολυμπία, Ὀλύμπια, and Ολύμπια

Ancient Greek

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Olympia, Greece

Etymology

From Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.lym.pí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.lymˈpi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.limˈbi.a/

Proper noun

Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ • (Olumpíā) f (genitive Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς); first declension

Olympia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ hē Olumpíā
Genitive	τῆς Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱς tês Olumpíās
Dative	τῇ Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾳ têi Olumpíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱν tḕn Olumpíān
Vocative	Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ Olumpíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ὀλύμπῐᾰ (Olúmpia)
Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾰζε (Olumpíaze)
Ὀλυμπῐᾰκός (Olumpiakós)
Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς (Olumpiás)
Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱσῐ (Olumpíāsi)
Ὀλυμπῐκός (Olumpikós)
Ὀλυμπῐονῑ́κης (Olumpionī́kēs)

Descendants

→ Arabic: أُولِيمْبِيَا (ʔūlīmbiyā)
→ Breton: Olimpia
→ Czech: Olympie
→ Danish: Olympia
→ Dutch: Olympia
→ English: Olympia
→ Estonian: Olümpia
→ Finnish: Olympia
→ French: Olympie
→ German: Olympia
Greek: Ολυμπία (Olympía), Ολύμπια (Olýmpia)
→ Hebrew: אולימפיה (Olimpya)
→ Italian: Olimpia
→ Japanese: オリンピア (Orinpia)
→ Low German: Olympia
→ Luxembourgish: Olympia
→ Norwegian: Olympia
→ Persian: المپیا
→ Polish: Olimpia
→ Portuguese: Olímpia
→ Romanian: Olympia
→ Russian: Оли́мпия (Olímpija)
→ Slovene: Olimpija
→ Spanish: Olimpia
→ Swedish: Olympia
→ Turkish: Olimpiya
→ Ukrainian: Олімпія (Olimpija)
→ Vietnamese: Olympia

References

“Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ὀλυμπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ὀλυμπία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019

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