Τροία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • Τρῴᾱ (Trṓiā), Τρωΐα (Trōḯa), Τροΐᾱ (Troḯā) – Doric, disyllabic or trisyllabic
  • Τροίη (Troíē) – Epic, Ionic

Etymology

Of Anatolian origin. Compare Hittite 𒋫𒊒𒌑𒄿𒊭 (Ta-ru-(ú-)i-ša, “Troy”), which must be read /Trūisa/, and also Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀫𐀊 (to-ro-ja, “Trojan woman”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τροίᾱ • (Troíā) f (genitive Τροίας); first declension

  1. Troy

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Τροίᾱ; τῆς Τροίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Τροίᾱ
hē Troíā
Genitive τῆς Τροίᾱς
tês Troíās
Dative τῇ Τροίᾳ
têi Troíāi
Accusative τὴν Τροίᾱν
tḕn Troíān
Vocative Τροίᾱ
Troíā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • Τροίᾱθεν (Troíāthen), Τροίηθεν (Troíēthen), Τρωΐᾱθεν (Trōḯāthen)
  • Τροίᾱνδε (Troíānde), Τροίηνδε (Troíēnde), Τρῴᾱνδε (Trṓiānde)

Descendants

References
  • Τροία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Τροία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Τροία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Τροία 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, page 1,028
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1511

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τροία (Troía)

  • IPA(key): [ˈtri.a]
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: τρία (tría)
  • Hyphenation: Τροί-α

Proper noun

Τροία • (Troía) f

  1. Troy

Declension
Declension of Τροία (Troía)
singular
nominative Τροία •
genitive Τροίας •
accusative Τροία •
vocative Τροία •

Further reading
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