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 • (kausíā) 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 kausíā	τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausíā	αἱ καυσῐ́αι hai kausíai
Genitive	τῆς καυσῐ́ᾱς tês kausíās	τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausíain	τῶν καυσῐῶν tôn kausiôn
Dative	τῇ καυσῐ́ᾳ têi kausíāi	τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausíain	ταῖς καυσῐ́αις taîs kausíais
Accusative	τὴν καυσῐ́ᾱν tḕn kausíān	τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausíā	τᾱ̀ς καυσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kausíās
Vocative	καυσῐ́ᾱ kausíā	καυσῐ́ᾱ kausíā	καυσῐ́αι kausíai
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