ῥαψῳδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “performer of Epic poetry”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ap.sɔːi̯.dí.aː/ → /rap.soˈði.a/ → /rap.soˈði.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ap.sɔːi̯.dí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈdi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈði.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈði.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /rap.soˈði.a/

Noun

ῥᾰψῳδῐ́ᾱ • (rhapsōidíā) f (genitive ῥᾰψῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. recitation of Epic poetry
2. Epic composition
3. rigmarole

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ hē rhapsōidíā	τὼ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhapsōidíā	αἱ ῥαψῳδῐ́αι hai rhapsōidíai
Genitive	τῆς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς tês rhapsōidíās	τοῖν ῥαψῳδῐ́αιν toîn rhapsōidíain	τῶν ῥαψῳδῐῶν tôn rhapsōidiôn
Dative	τῇ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾳ têi rhapsōidíāi	τοῖν ῥαψῳδῐ́αιν toîn rhapsōidíain	ταῖς ῥαψῳδῐ́αις taîs rhapsōidíais
Accusative	τὴν ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn rhapsōidíān	τὼ ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhapsōidíā	τᾱ̀ς ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s rhapsōidíās
Vocative	ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ rhapsōidíā	ῥαψῳδῐ́ᾱ rhapsōidíā	ῥαψῳδῐ́αι rhapsōidíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: rhapsōdia
  • → Middle French: rhapsodie
    • → English: rhapsody
    • French: rhapsodie

Further reading

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