στρατηγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From στρᾰτηγός (strătēgós, “leader of an army”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stra.tɛː.ɡí.aː/ → /stra.tiˈʝi.a/ → /stra.tiˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stra.tɛː.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /stra.te̝ˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stra.tiˈʝi.a/

Noun

στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ • (strătēgĭ́ā) f (genitive στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. office of general, command
   1. period of command, campaign
2. generalship
3. province governed by a στρατηγός

Inflection

First declension of ἡ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ hē strătēgĭ́ā	τὼ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ tṑ strătēgĭ́ā	αἱ στρᾰτηγῐ́αι hai strătēgĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς tês strătēgĭ́ās	τοῖν στρᾰτηγῐ́αιν toîn strătēgĭ́ain	τῶν στρᾰτηγῐῶν tôn strătēgĭôn
Dative	τῇ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾳ têi strătēgĭ́āi	τοῖν στρᾰτηγῐ́αιν toîn strătēgĭ́ain	ταῖς στρᾰτηγῐ́αις taîs strătēgĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱν tḕn strătēgĭ́ān	τὼ στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ tṑ strătēgĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s strătēgĭ́ās
Vocative	στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ strătēgĭ́ā	στρᾰτηγῐ́ᾱ strătēgĭ́ā	στρᾰτηγῐ́αι strătēgĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: stratēgia
  • → English: strategy
  • → French: stratégie

Further reading

• “στρατηγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στρατηγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • captaincy idem, page 112.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • generalship idem, page 356.
  • praetorship idem, page 631.
  • strategy idem, page 823.