πρωτοτόκια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρωτοτόκος (prōtotókos, “firstborn”) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prɔː.to.tó.ki.a/ → /pro.toˈto.ci.a/ → /pro.toˈto.ci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prɔː.to.tó.ki.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pro.toˈto.ki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pro.toˈto.ci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pro.toˈto.ci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pro.toˈto.ci.a/

Noun

πρωτοτόκῐᾰ • (prōtotókĭă) n pl (genitive πρωτοτοκῐ́ων); second declension

1. primogeniture; the rights of the firstborn

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ πρωτοτόκῐᾰ; τῶν πρωτοτοκῐ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ πρωτοτόκῐᾰ tằ prōtotókĭă
Genitive	τῶν πρωτοτοκῐ́ων tôn prōtotokĭ́ōn
Dative	τοῖς πρωτοτοκῐ́οις toîs prōtotokĭ́ois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ πρωτοτόκῐᾰ tằ prōtotókĭă
Vocative	πρωτοτόκῐᾰ prōtotókĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πρωτοτόκια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρωτοτόκια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4415 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible