ἀμαυρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ᾰ̓μαυρός (amaurós) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mau̯.rí.aː/ → /a.maˈβri.a/ → /a.maˈvri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mau̯.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.mawˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.maˈβri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.maˈvri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.maˈvri.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ • (amauríā) f (genitive ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (chiefly of vision) dimness, dullness, faintness, feebleness, weakness (glossed with the Latin cālīgō)
   • Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum 3.347
   • PMag.Rain. 1.38
   • Phys 23.2
   • PMag.Christ. 10.40

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ hē amauríā	τὼ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ tṑ amauríā	αἱ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́αι hai amauríai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱς tês amauríās	τοῖν ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́αιν toîn amauríain	τῶν ᾰ̓μαυρῐῶν tôn amauriôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾳ têi amauríāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́αιν toîn amauríain	ταῖς ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́αις taîs amauríais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱν tḕn amauríān	τὼ ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ tṑ amauríā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s amauríās
Vocative	ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ amauríā	ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́ᾱ amauríā	ᾰ̓μαυρῐ́αι amauríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἀμαυρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμαυρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀμαυρία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften