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-ία

-ία

See also: ἰά, ἴα, -ια, and -ιά

Ancient Greek

Suffix

-ῐ́ᾱ (-íā) f (genitive -ῐ́ᾱς) first declension

  1. Added to stems of adjectives, or rarely to the stems of verbs, to form feminine abstract nouns

Inflection

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  • Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 859.6

Greek

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈia/

Suffix

-ία (-ía) f

  1. added to an adjective to create a noun denoting a country:
    Γάλλος ("French")     Γαλλία ("France")
    Τούρκος ("Turk")     Τουρκία ("Turkey")
    Άγγλος ("English")     Αγγλία ("England")

Declension