Παγασαί

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.ɡa.sǎi̯/ → /pa.ɣaˈsɛ/ → /pa.ɣaˈse/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.ɡa.sǎi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.ɡaˈsɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.ɣaˈsɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.ɣaˈse/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.ɣaˈse/

Proper noun

Πᾰγᾰσαί • (Pagasaí) f pl (genitive Πᾰγᾰσῶν); first declension

1. Pagasae; Pagases, Magnesia, Greece
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.193:

     οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι, ὡς ἐπαύσατό τε ὁ ἄνεμος καὶ τὸ κῦμα ἔστρωτο, κατασπάσαντες τὰς νέας ἔπλεον παρὰ τὴν ἤπειρον, κάμψαντες δὲ τὴν ἄκρην τῆς Μαγνησίης ἰθέαν ἔπλεον ἐς τὸν κόλπον τὸν ἐπὶ Παγασέων φέροντα.

     hoi dè bárbaroi, hōs epaúsató te ho ánemos kaì tò kûma éstrōto, kataspásantes tàs néas épleon parà tḕn ḗpeiron, kámpsantes dè tḕn ákrēn tês Magnēsíēs ithéan épleon es tòn kólpon tòn epì Pagaséōn phéronta.

     The barbarians, when the wind ceased and the waves no longer ran high, put to sea and coasted along the mainland; they sailed around the headland of Magnesia and sailed straight into the gulf which stretches toward Pagasae.

Declension

First declension of αἱ Πᾰγᾰσαί; τῶν Πᾰγᾰσῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Πᾰγᾰσαί hai Pagasaí
Genitive	τῶν Πᾰγᾰσῶν tôn Pagasôn
Dative	ταῖς Πᾰγᾰσαῖς taîs Pagasaîs
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Πᾰγᾰσᾱ́ς tā̀s Pagasā́s
Vocative	Πᾰγᾰσαί Pagasaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Παγασές (Pagasés)
• Latin: Pagasae

References

• “Πᾰγᾰσαί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019

Further reading

• Pagasae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia