ζυγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), because the field maple was mainly used to make yokes.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡí.aː/ → /zyˈʝi.a/ → /ziˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zyˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈʝi.a/

Noun

ζῠγῐ́ᾱ • (zŭgĭ́ā) f (genitive ζῠγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. field maple (Acer campestre)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ hē zŭgĭ́ā	τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zŭgĭ́ā	αἱ ζῠγῐ́αι hai zŭgĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tês zŭgĭ́ās	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zŭgĭ́ain	τῶν ζῠγῐῶν tôn zŭgĭôn
Dative	τῇ ζῠγῐ́ᾳ têi zŭgĭ́āi	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zŭgĭ́ain	ταῖς ζῠγῐ́αις taîs zŭgĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ζῠγῐ́ᾱν tḕn zŭgĭ́ān	τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zŭgĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s zŭgĭ́ās
Vocative	ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zŭgĭ́ā	ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zŭgĭ́ā	ζῠγῐ́αι zŭgĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζῠ́γῐνος (zŭ́gĭnos)

Further reading

• “ζυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζυγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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