πνευμονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλευμονία (pleumonía) (Attic)

Etymology

From πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pneu̯.mo.ní.aː/ → /pneβ.moˈni.a/ → /pnev.moˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pneu̯.mo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pnew.moˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pneβ.moˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pnev.moˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pnev.moˈni.a/

Noun

πνευμονίᾱ • (pneumoníā)

1. a disease of the lungs

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πνευμονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πνευμονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πνευμονῐ́ᾱ hē pneumoníā	τὼ πνευμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ pneumoníā	αἱ πνευμονῐ́αι hai pneumoníai
Genitive	τῆς πνευμονῐ́ᾱς tês pneumoníās	τοῖν πνευμονῐ́αιν toîn pneumoníain	τῶν πνευμονῐῶν tôn pneumoniôn
Dative	τῇ πνευμονῐ́ᾳ têi pneumoníāi	τοῖν πνευμονῐ́αιν toîn pneumoníain	ταῖς πνευμονῐ́αις taîs pneumoníais
Accusative	τὴν πνευμονῐ́ᾱν tḕn pneumoníān	τὼ πνευμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ pneumoníā	τᾱ̀ς πνευμονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s pneumoníās
Vocative	πνευμονῐ́ᾱ pneumoníā	πνευμονῐ́ᾱ pneumoníā	πνευμονῐ́αι pneumoníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: πνευμονία f (pneumonía)
  • Greek: πνευμονία f (pnevmonía)
  • → Russian: пневмони́я f (pnevmoníja)
• → Latin: pneumonia
  • → Catalan: pneumònia f
  • → English: pneumonia
    • → Hindi: न्यूमोनिया f (nyūmoniyā)
  • → Finnish: pneumonia
  • → French: pneumonie f
    • → Dutch: pneumonie f
  • → German: Pneumonie f
    • → Czech: pneumonie f
  • → Portuguese: pneumonia f
  • → Slovak: pneumónia f
  • → Spanish: neumonía f
  • → Romanian: pneumonie f

References

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

Greek

Noun

πνευμονία • (pnevmonía) f (plural πνευμονίες)

1. (medicine) pneumonia

Declension

Declension of πνευμονία

	singular	plural
nominative	πνευμονία •	πνευμονίες •
genitive	πνευμονίας •	πνευμονιών •
accusative	πνευμονία •	πνευμονίες •
vocative	πνευμονία •	πνευμονίες •

Related terms

• see: πνεύμονας m (pnévmonas, “lung”)

Further reading

• πνευμονία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el