ὑπηρεσία

See also: υπηρεσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὑπηρετεία (hupēreteía)

Etymology

From ὑπηρέτης (hupērétēs, “rower; assistant, servant”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pɛː.re.sí.aː/ → /y.pi.reˈsi.a/ → /i.pi.reˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pɛː.re.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.pe̝.reˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.pi.reˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.pi.reˈsi.a/

Noun

ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ • (hupēresĭ́ā) f (genitive ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. body or rowers, ship's crew
2. (in general) all kinds of service
3. (in the plural) class of servants or attendants

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hē hupēresĭ́ā	τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresĭ́ā	αἱ ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hai hupēresĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tês hupēresĭ́ās	τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresĭ́ain	τῶν ὑπηρεσῐῶν tôn hupēresĭôn
Dative	τῇ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾳ têi hupēresĭ́āi	τοῖν ὑπηρεσῐ́αιν toîn hupēresĭ́ain	ταῖς ὑπηρεσῐ́αις taîs hupēresĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱν tḕn hupēresĭ́ān	τὼ ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ tṑ hupēresĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hupēresĭ́ās
Vocative	ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresĭ́ā	ὑπηρεσῐ́ᾱ hupēresĭ́ā	ὑπηρεσῐ́αι hupēresĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υπηρεσία (ypiresía)

Further reading

• “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπηρεσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑπηρεσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette