ἐπιδημία

See also: επιδημία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐπιδᾱμίᾱ (epidāmíā) — Doric

Etymology

From ἐπιδημέω (epidēméō) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.dɛː.í.aː/ → /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/ → /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.dɛː.í.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.de̝ˈi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ðiˈi.a/

Noun

ἐπῐδημίᾱ • (epidēmíā) f (genitive ἐπῐδημίᾱς); first declension

1. a stay in a place

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐπῐδημίᾱ; τῆς ἐπῐδημίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐδημίᾱ hē epidēmíā	τὼ ἐπῐδημίᾱ tṑ epidēmíā	αἱ ἐπῐδημίαι hai epidēmíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐδημίᾱς tês epidēmíās	τοῖν ἐπῐδημίαιν toîn epidēmíain	τῶν ἐπῐδημιῶν tôn epidēmiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐδημίᾳ têi epidēmíāi	τοῖν ἐπῐδημίαιν toîn epidēmíain	ταῖς ἐπῐδημίαις taîs epidēmíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐδημίᾱν tḕn epidēmíān	τὼ ἐπῐδημίᾱ tṑ epidēmíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐδημίᾱς tā̀s epidēmíās
Vocative	ἐπῐδημίᾱ epidēmíā	ἐπῐδημίᾱ epidēmíā	ἐπῐδημίαι epidēmíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐπιδημιακός (epidēmiakós)

Descendants

• Greek: επιδημία (epidimía)
• → Bulgarian: епиде́мия (epidémija)
• → Latin: epidēmia (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: эпиде́мия (epidémija)
  • → Kazakh: эпидемия (épidemiä)
• → Ukrainian: епіде́мія (epidémija)

Further reading

• ἐπιδημία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἐπιδημία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἐπιδημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • sojourn idem, page 791.
  • stay idem, page 813.