ἀνθίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally derived by Strömberg from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās), because of its color. However the etymology is still open.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tʰí.aːs/ → /anˈθi.as/ → /anˈθi.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tʰí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈtʰi.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈθi.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈθi.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈθi.as/

Noun

ἀνθῐ́ᾱς • (anthíās) m (genitive ἀνθῐ́ου); first declension

1. marine goldfish (Anthias anthias)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ἀνθῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ ἀνθῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀνθῐ́ᾱς ho anthíās	τὼ ἀνθῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthíā	οἱ ἀνθῐ́αι hoi anthíai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀνθῐ́ου toû anthíou	τοῖν ἀνθῐ́αιν toîn anthíain	τῶν ἀνθῐῶν tôn anthiôn
Dative	τῷ ἀνθῐ́ᾳ tôi anthíāi	τοῖν ἀνθῐ́αιν toîn anthíain	τοῖς ἀνθῐ́αις toîs anthíais
Accusative	τὸν ἀνθῐ́ᾱν tòn anthíān	τὼ ἀνθῐ́ᾱ tṑ anthíā	τοὺς ἀνθῐ́ᾱς toùs anthíās
Vocative	ἀνθῐ́ᾱ anthíā	ἀνθῐ́ᾱ anthíā	ἀνθῐ́αι anthíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Anthias
  • → English: anthia

Further reading

• “ἀνθίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνθίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀνθίας 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