καυσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Furnée refers to γαύσαπος (gaúsapos, “woolen cloth”). Alternatively, from Proto-Scythian *xauδiya via Thracian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kau̯.sí.aː/ → /kaɸˈsi.a/ → /kafˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kau̯.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaʍˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaɸˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kafˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kafˈsi.a/

Noun

καυσῐ́ᾱ • (kausĭ́ā) f (genitive καυσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. royal hat made of felt, used by Macedonians

Inflection

First declension of ἡ καυσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς καυσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ καυσῐ́ᾱ hē kausĭ́ā	τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausĭ́ā	αἱ καυσῐ́αι hai kausĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς καυσῐ́ᾱς tês kausĭ́ās	τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausĭ́ain	τῶν καυσῐῶν tôn kausĭôn
Dative	τῇ καυσῐ́ᾳ têi kausĭ́āi	τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausĭ́ain	ταῖς καυσῐ́αις taîs kausĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν καυσῐ́ᾱν tḕn kausĭ́ān	τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς καυσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kausĭ́ās
Vocative	καυσῐ́ᾱ kausĭ́ā	καυσῐ́ᾱ kausĭ́ā	καυσῐ́αι kausĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: kausia
• → Latin: causia

Further reading

• “καυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καυσία 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