ὑμνῳδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑμνῳδός (humnōidós, “singing hymns”) +‎ -ία (-ía), from ὕμνος (húmnos, “hymn”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ), contracted form of ἀοιδή (aoidḗ) "song".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hym.nɔːi̯.dí.aː/ → /ym.noˈði.a/ → /im.noˈði.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hym.nɔːi̯.dí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ym.noˈdi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ym.noˈði.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ym.noˈði.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /im.noˈði.a/

Noun

ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ • (humnōidíā) f (genitive ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. singing of a hymn, hymning

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ hē humnōidíā	τὼ ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ humnōidíā	αἱ ὑμνῳδῐ́αι hai humnōidíai
Genitive	τῆς ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱς tês humnōidíās	τοῖν ὑμνῳδῐ́αιν toîn humnōidíain	τῶν ὑμνῳδῐῶν tôn humnōidiôn
Dative	τῇ ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾳ têi humnōidíāi	τοῖν ὑμνῳδῐ́αιν toîn humnōidíain	ταῖς ὑμνῳδῐ́αις taîs humnōidíais
Accusative	τὴν ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn humnōidíān	τὼ ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ humnōidíā	τᾱ̀ς ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s humnōidíās
Vocative	ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ humnōidíā	ὑμνῳδῐ́ᾱ humnōidíā	ὑμνῳδῐ́αι humnōidíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: hymnody

Further reading

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