Ὀλυμπιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ắs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.lym.pi.ás/ → /o.lym.piˈas/ → /o.lim.biˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.lym.pi.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.lym.piˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.lym.piˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.lym.piˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.lim.biˈas/

Proper noun

Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς • (Olumpĭắs) f (genitive Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος); third declension

1. the Olympiad
2. a female given name: Olympias

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς; τῆς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς hē Olumpĭắs	τὼ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε tṑ Olumpĭắde	αἱ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες hai Olumpĭắdes
Genitive	τῆς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος tês Olumpĭắdos	τοῖν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δοιν toîn Olumpĭắdoin	τῶν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δων tôn Olumpĭắdōn
Dative	τῇ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δῐ têi Olumpĭắdĭ	τοῖν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δοιν toîn Olumpĭắdoin	ταῖς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́σῐ / Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́σῐν taîs Olumpĭắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Olumpĭắdă	τὼ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε tṑ Olumpĭắde	τᾱ̀ς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s Olumpĭắdăs
Vocative	Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς Olumpĭắs	Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε Olumpĭắde	Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες Olumpĭắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Related terms

• Ὀλύμπῐᾰ (Olúmpĭă)

Descendants

Descendants of Ὀλυμπιάς (Olympiad)

• → Arabic: أوليمبياس
• → Danish: Olympiade
• → English: Olympiad
• → French: Olympiade
• → Galician: Olimpíada
• → German: Olympiade
• Greek: Ολυμπιάδα (Olympiáda)
• → Hebrew: אולימפיאדה (Olimpyada)
• → Italian: Olimpiade
• → Polish: Olimpiada
• → Portuguese: Olimpíada
• → Russian: Олимпиада (Olimpiada)
• → Spanish: Olimpiada
• → Swedish: Olympiad

Descendants of Ὀλυμπιάς (Olympias)

• → Catalan: Olímpia
• → Danish: Olympias
• → Dutch: Olympias
• → English: Olympias
• → Finnish: Olympias
• → French: Olympias
• → German: Olympias
• Greek: Ολυμπιάς (Olympiás)
• → Hebrew: אולימפיאס (Olimpyas)
• → Japanese: オリンピアード (Orinpiādo)
• → Latin: Olympias
• → Marathi: ऑलिंपियास (ŏlimpiyās)
• → Norwegian: Olympias
• → Polish: Olimpias
• → Portuguese: Olímpia
• → Spanish: Olimpia
• → Swedish: Olympias
• → Urdu: اولمپاس

References

• “Ὀλυμπιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὀλυμπιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὀλυμπιάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ὀλυμπιάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019