πότνια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pótnia, from Proto-Indo-European *pótnih₂. Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 (po-ti-ni-ja), Sanskrit पत्नी (patnī, “mistress, wife”), Lithuanian pati (“wife”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.tni.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
Noun
πότνιᾰ • (pótnia) f (genitive ποτνίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πότνιᾰ hē pótnia |
τὼ ποτνίᾱ tṑ potníā |
αἱ πότνιαι hai pótniai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ποτνίᾱς tês potníās |
τοῖν ποτνίαιν toîn potníain |
τῶν ποτνιῶν tôn potniôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ποτνίᾳ têi potníāi |
τοῖν ποτνίαιν toîn potníain |
ταῖς ποτνίαις taîs potníais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πότνιᾰν tḕn pótnian |
τὼ ποτνίᾱ tṑ potníā |
τᾱ̀ς ποτνίᾱς tā̀s potníās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πότνιᾰ pótnia |
ποτνίᾱ potníā |
πότνιαι pótniai | ||||||||||
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- An alternative vocative form is πότνα (pótna).
References
- “πότνια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πότνια - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
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