αἱμασιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes compares the word with Latin saepēs (“hedge”), with a change from "p" to "m".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hai̯.ma.si.ǎː/ → /ɛ.ma.siˈa/ → /e.ma.siˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hai̯.ma.si.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛ.ma.siˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ma.siˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ma.siˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ma.siˈa/

Noun

αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ • (haimăsĭā́) f (genitive αἱμᾰσῐᾶς); first declension

1. wall of dry stones

Inflection

First declension of ἡ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́; τῆς αἱμᾰσῐᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ hē haimăsĭā́	τὼ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ tṑ haimăsĭā́	αἱ αἱμᾰσῐαί hai haimăsĭaí
Genitive	τῆς αἱμᾰσῐᾶς tês haimăsĭâs	τοῖν αἱμᾰσῐαῖν toîn haimăsĭaîn	τῶν αἱμᾰσῐῶν tôn haimăsĭôn
Dative	τῇ αἱμᾰσῐᾷ têi haimăsĭâi	τοῖν αἱμᾰσῐαῖν toîn haimăsĭaîn	ταῖς αἱμᾰσῐαῖς taîs haimăsĭaîs
Accusative	τὴν αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ν tḕn haimăsĭā́n	τὼ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ tṑ haimăsĭā́	τᾱ̀ς αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ς tā̀s haimăsĭā́s
Vocative	αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ haimăsĭā́	αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ haimăsĭā́	αἱμᾰσῐαί haimăsĭaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αιμασιά (aimasiá)

Further reading

• “αἱμασιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἱμασιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἱμασιά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN