ἀκτέα

See also: ακτέα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀκταία (aktaía), ἀκτέος (aktéos), ἀκτῆ (aktê)

Etymology

Unknown. The suffix -έᾱ (-éā) is frequent in tree names, like ἰτέᾱ (itéā, “willow”) and πτελέᾱ (pteléā, “elm”). Witczak connects the word with Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi, “ash tree”), which he disassociates from ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ak.té.aː/ → /akˈte.a/ → /akˈte.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ak.té.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /akˈte.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /akˈte.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /akˈte.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /akˈte.a/

Noun

ἀκτέᾱ • (aktéā) f (genitive ἀκτέᾱς); first declension

1. elder (Sambucus nigra)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀκτέᾱ; τῆς ἀκτέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀκτέᾱ hē aktéā	τὼ ἀκτέᾱ tṑ aktéā	αἱ ἀκτέαι hai aktéai
Genitive	τῆς ἀκτέᾱς tês aktéās	τοῖν ἀκτέαιν toîn aktéain	τῶν ἀκτεῶν tôn akteôn
Dative	τῇ ἀκτέᾳ têi aktéāi	τοῖν ἀκτέαιν toîn aktéain	ταῖς ἀκτέαις taîs aktéais
Accusative	τὴν ἀκτέᾱν tḕn aktéān	τὼ ἀκτέᾱ tṑ aktéā	τᾱ̀ς ἀκτέᾱς tā̀s aktéās
Vocative	ἀκτέᾱ aktéā	ἀκτέᾱ aktéā	ἀκτέαι aktéai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄκτινος (áktinos)
• χαμαιάκτη (khamaiáktē)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ακτέα (aktéa)
• → Latin: actē

Further reading

• “ἀκτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀκτέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκτέα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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