Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κονίη ‎(koníē) (Epic, Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /konía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /konía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /konía/

Noun

κονίᾱ • ‎(koníā) f ‎(genitive κονίας); first declension

1. dust, as stirred up by men's feet
   1. sand, soil
   2. (in the plural) ashes
2. a fine powder, sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent
3. powdered lime, plaster, stucco

Inflection

References

• κονία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κονία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κονία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κονία» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lye idem, page 506.
  • powder idem, page 630.
• LSJ 8th edition