ἔνδεια

See also: ένδεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐνδεής (endeḗs, “lacking”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-iă)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.deː.a/ → /ˈen.di.a/ → /ˈen.di.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /én.deː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.a/

Noun

ἔνδειᾰ • (éndeiă) f (genitive ἐνδείᾱς); first declension

1. lack
2. deficiency, defect

   Antonym: ῠ̔περβολή (hŭperbolḗ)

3. poverty, famine

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἔνδειᾰ; τῆς ἐνδείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔνδειᾰ hē éndeiă	τὼ ἐνδείᾱ tṑ endeíā	αἱ ἔνδειαι hai éndeiai
Genitive	τῆς ἐνδείᾱς tês endeíās	τοῖν ἐνδείαιν toîn endeíain	τῶν ἐνδειῶν tôn endeiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐνδείᾳ têi endeíāi	τοῖν ἐνδείαιν toîn endeíain	ταῖς ἐνδείαις taîs endeíais
Accusative	τὴν ἔνδειᾰν tḕn éndeiăn	τὼ ἐνδείᾱ tṑ endeíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐνδείᾱς tā̀s endeíās
Vocative	ἔνδειᾰ éndeiă	ἐνδείᾱ endeíā	ἔνδειαι éndeiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ένδεια (éndeia) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἔνδεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔνδεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔνδεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔνδεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)