Οὐρανία

See also: ουράνια and Ουρανία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οὐρᾰνός (ourănós, “sky; heaven”) or Οὐρᾰνός (Ourănós, “Uranus”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.ra.ní.aː/ → /u.raˈni.a/ → /u.raˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.ra.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /u.raˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /u.raˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /u.raˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /u.raˈni.a/

Proper noun

Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ • (Ourănĭ́ā) f (genitive Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Urania

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ hē Ourănĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱς tês Ourănĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾳ têi Ourănĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱν tḕn Ourănĭ́ān
Vocative	Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ Ourănĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ουρανία (Ouranía)
• Latin: Ūrania
• → Russian: Ура́ния (Uránija)

See also

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Καλλιόπη, Κλειώ, Ἐρατώ, Εὐτέρπη, Μελπομένη, Πολύμνια, Τερψιχόρη, Θάλεια, Οὐρανία

References

• “Οὐρανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Οὐρανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029