Θεσσαλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Θεσσᾰλός (Thessalós) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰes.sa.lí.aː/ → /θes.saˈli.a/ → /θe.saˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰes.sa.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰes.saˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θes.saˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θes.saˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θe.saˈli.a/

Proper noun

Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱ • (Thessalíā) f (genitive Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Thessaly

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱ hē Thessalíā
Genitive	τῆς Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱς tês Thessalíās
Dative	τῇ Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾳ têi Thessalíāi
Accusative	τὴν Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱν tḕn Thessalíān
Vocative	Θεσσᾰλῐ́ᾱ Thessalíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: Тесалия (Tesalija)
• → English: Thessaly
• → French: Thessalie
• → German: Thessalien
• Greek: Θεσσαλία (Thessalía)
• → Hebrew: תסליה (Tessalya)
• → Italian: Tessaglia
• → Japanese: テッサリア (Tessaria)
• → Latin: Thessalia
• → Macedonian: Тесалија (Tesalija)
• → Romanian: Tesalia
• → Russian: Фесса́лия (Fessálija)
• → Turkish: Tesalya

References

• “Θεσσαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Θεσσαλία”, 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027