ἴκρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Technical word without etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /í.kri.a/ → /ˈi.kri.a/ → /ˈi.kri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.kri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.kri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.kri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.kri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.kri.a/

Noun

ἴκρῐα • (íkria) n pl (genitive ἰκρῐ́ων); second declension

1. (nautical) halfdeck at the stern of a ship
2. (in general) platform, stage
3. scaffolding, framework
4. benches in a theatre

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ ἴκρῐᾰ; τῶν ἰκρῐ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ ἴκρῐᾰ tà íkria
Genitive	τῶν ἰκρῐ́ων tôn ikríōn
Dative	τοῖς ἰκρῐ́οις toîs ikríois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ ἴκρῐᾰ tà íkria
Vocative	ἴκρῐᾰ íkria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The oblique form ἰκριόφιν (ikrióphin) is also attested in Epic Greek

Derived terms

• ἐπίκριον (epíkrion)
• ἰκριοποιέω (ikriopoiéō)
• ἰκριόω (ikrióō)
• ἰκρίωμα (ikríōma)
• ἰκριωτήρ (ikriōtḗr)

 

Further reading

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