καυσία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Furnée refers to γαύσαπος (gaúsapos, “woolen cloth”). Alternatively, from Proto-Scythian *xauδiya via Thracian.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kau̯.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaʍˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaɸˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kafˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kafˈsi.a/
Noun
καυσῐ́ᾱ • (kausĭ́ā) f (genitive καυσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- royal hat made of felt, used by Macedonians
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ καυσῐ́ᾱ hē kausĭ́ā |
τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausĭ́ā |
αἱ καυσῐ́αι hai kausĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς καυσῐ́ᾱς tês kausĭ́ās |
τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausĭ́ain |
τῶν καυσῐῶν tôn kausĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ καυσῐ́ᾳ tēî kausĭ́āi |
τοῖν καυσῐ́αιν toîn kausĭ́ain |
ταῖς καυσῐ́αις taîs kausĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν καυσῐ́ᾱν tḕn kausĭ́ān |
τὼ καυσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kausĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς καυσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kausĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | καυσῐ́ᾱ kausĭ́ā |
καυσῐ́ᾱ kausĭ́ā |
καυσῐ́αι kausĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “καυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καυσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN