ἀμφίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The suffix -ιας is typical of names of wines. Furnée connects the gloss with ἀμφής (amphḗs, “wine blossom”) and ὄμφαξ (ómphax, “unripe grape”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /am.pʰí.aːs/ → /amˈɸi.as/ → /amˈfi.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /am.pʰí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /amˈpʰi.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /amˈɸi.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /amˈfi.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /amˈfi.as/

Noun

ἀμφῐ́ᾱς • (amphíās) m (genitive ἀμφῐ́ου); first declension

1. name of a bad Sicilian wine

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἀμφῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ ἀμφῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀμφῐ́ᾱς ho amphíās	τὼ ἀμφῐ́ᾱ tṑ amphíā	οἱ ἀμφῐ́αι hoi amphíai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀμφῐ́ου toû amphíou	τοῖν ἀμφῐ́αιν toîn amphíain	τῶν ἀμφῐῶν tôn amphiôn
Dative	τῷ ἀμφῐ́ᾳ tôi amphíāi	τοῖν ἀμφῐ́αιν toîn amphíain	τοῖς ἀμφῐ́αις toîs amphíais
Accusative	τὸν ἀμφῐ́ᾱν tòn amphíān	τὼ ἀμφῐ́ᾱ tṑ amphíā	τοὺς ἀμφῐ́ᾱς toùs amphíās
Vocative	ἀμφῐ́ᾱ amphíā	ἀμφῐ́ᾱ amphíā	ἀμφῐ́αι amphíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀμφίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμφίας 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