φλιά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φλειά (phleiá)

Etymology

A technical word without etymology, so possibly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰliː.ǎː/ → /ɸliˈa/ → /fliˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰliː.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰliˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸliˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fliˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fliˈa/

Noun

φλῑᾱ́ • (phlīā́) f (genitive φλῑᾶς); first declension

1. doorpost, doorjamb
2. lintel
3. standing post in which a windlass works
4. support

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φλῑᾱ́; τῆς φλῑᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φλῑᾱ́ hē phlīā́	τὼ φλῑᾱ́ tṑ phlīā́	αἱ φλῑαί hai phlīaí
Genitive	τῆς φλῑᾶς tês phlīâs	τοῖν φλῑαῖν toîn phlīaîn	τῶν φλῑῶν tôn phlīôn
Dative	τῇ φλῑᾷ têi phlīâi	τοῖν φλῑαῖν toîn phlīaîn	ταῖς φλῑαῖς taîs phlīaîs
Accusative	τὴν φλῑᾱ́ν tḕn phlīā́n	τὼ φλῑᾱ́ tṑ phlīā́	τᾱ̀ς φλῑᾱ́ς tā̀s phlīā́s
Vocative	φλῑᾱ́ phlīā́	φλῑᾱ́ phlīā́	φλῑαί phlīaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀνώφλιον (anṓphlion)
• κατώφλιον (katṓphlion)

Further reading

• “φλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φλιά 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