Βενέτζια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Variant of Ἐνετία (Enetía) under influence from Latin Venetia (“land of the Veneti; Venice”), from Venetī + -ia, of uncertain but presumably Venetic origin.

Proper noun

Βενέτζιᾰ • (Benétziă) f (genitive Βενετζίᾱς); first declension

1. (Byzantine) Synonym of Ἐνετία (Enetía), Venice (a port city in northeastern Italy; former capital of an independent republic).
   • Chron. 209.
   • Mal. 176.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Βενέτζιᾰ; τῆς Βενετζίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Βενέτζιᾰ hē Benétziă
Genitive	τῆς Βενετζίᾱς tês Benetzíās
Dative	τῇ Βενετζίᾳ têi Benetzíāi
Accusative	τὴν Βενέτζιᾰν tḕn Benétziăn
Vocative	Βενέτζιᾰ Benétziă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Βενετικός (Benetikós)

References

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “Βενέτζια”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 305