Ἱστιαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from ἱστία + -αῖος?”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /his.ti.âi̯.os/ → /is.tiˈɛ.os/ → /is.tiˈe.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /his.ti.âi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)is.tiˈɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /is.tiˈɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /is.tiˈe.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /is.tiˈe.os/

Proper noun

Ἱστιαῖος • (Histiaîos) m (genitive Ἱστιαίου); second declension

1. Histiaeus
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.138.2

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἱστιαῖος; τοῦ Ἱστιαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἱστιαῖος ho Histiaîos
Genitive	τοῦ Ἱστιαίου toû Histiaíou
Dative	τῷ Ἱστιαίῳ tôi Histiaíōi
Accusative	τὸν Ἱστιαῖον tòn Histiaîon
Vocative	Ἱστιαῖε Histiaîe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Ἱστιαία (Histiaía)

Descendants

• Greek: Ιστιαίος (Istiaíos)
• Latin: Histiaeus

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013