μεγαλογραφία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέγας (mégas, big, grand) +‎ -γραφία (-graphía, writing, drawing)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.ɡa.lo.ɡra.pʰí.aː/ → /me.ɣa.lo.ɣraˈɸi.a/ → /me.ɣa.lo.ɣraˈfi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.ɡa.lo.ɡra.pʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me.ɡa.lo.ɡraˈpʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /me.ɣa.lo.ɣraˈɸi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.ɣa.lo.ɣraˈfi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.ɣa.lo.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

μεγᾰλογρᾰφίᾱ • (megălogrăphíā) f (genitive μεγᾰλογρᾰφίᾱς); first declension

1. (art, painting) large-scale painting, grand painting
2. (art) megalography, depiction of grand subjects

Declension

First declension of ἡ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ hē megălogrăphĭ́ā	τὼ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ megălogrăphĭ́ā	αἱ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́αι hai megălogrăphĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tês megălogrăphĭ́ās	τοῖν μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn megălogrăphĭ́ain	τῶν μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐῶν tôn megălogrăphĭôn
Dative	τῇ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾳ têi megălogrăphĭ́āi	τοῖν μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn megălogrăphĭ́ain	ταῖς μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́αις taîs megălogrăphĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱν tḕn megălogrăphĭ́ān	τὼ μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ megălogrăphĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s megălogrăphĭ́ās
Vocative	μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ megălogrăphĭ́ā	μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ megălogrăphĭ́ā	μεγᾰλογρᾰφῐ́αι megălogrăphĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Latino-Faliscan
  • Latin: megalographia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: megalografía
  • French: mégalographie
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: megalografia
  • Spanish: megalografía
• Italo-Romance
  • Italian: megalografia
• West Germanic
  • English: megalography
  • German: Megalographie
• Slavic
  • Russian: мегалография (megalografija)

References

• μεγαλογραφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μεγαλογραφία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μεγαλογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press