Εὔβοια

See also: Εύβοια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ βο (bo, “cow”) +‎ -ια (-ia, “country of”) meaning "good cow country."

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Εὔβοιᾰ • (Eúboia) f (genitive Εὐβοίᾱς); first declension

  1. Euboea.

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Εὔβοιᾰ; τῆς Εὐβοίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Εὔβοιᾰ
hē Eúboia
Genitive τῆς Εὐβοίᾱς
tês Euboíās
Dative τῇ Εὐβοίᾳ
têi Euboíāi
Accusative τὴν Εὔβοιᾰν
tḕn Eúboian
Vocative Εὔβοιᾰ
Eúboia
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Εὐβοεύς (Euboeús)
  • Εὐβοϊκός (Euboïkós)
  • Εὐβοικός (Euboikós)
  • Εὑβοιίς (Heuboiís)
  • Εὐβοῖδα (Euboîda)

Descendants

References
  • Εὔβοια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Εὔβοια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Εὔβοια in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Εὔβοια in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010

Further reading

Euboea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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