ξενία

See also: Ξένια

Ancient Greek

From ξένος (xénos, “stranger, guest”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xeníā) f (genitive ξενῐ́ᾱς); first declension

hospitality, hospitable reception, entertainment
guest room
friendly relations
the state/rights of a foreigner
the idea that all strangers have a right to a certain gift, whether it is food, gold, entertainment or a place to stay

First declension of ἡ ξενῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ξενῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ξενῐ́ᾱ hē xeníā	τὼ ξενῐ́ᾱ tṑ xeníā	αἱ ξενῐ́αι hai xeníai
Genitive	τῆς ξενῐ́ᾱς tês xeníās	τοῖν ξενῐ́αιν toîn xeníain	τῶν ξενῐῶν tôn xeniôn
Dative	τῇ ξενῐ́ᾳ têi xeníāi	τοῖν ξενῐ́αιν toîn xeníain	ταῖς ξενῐ́αις taîs xeníais
Accusative	τὴν ξενῐ́ᾱν tḕn xeníān	τὼ ξενῐ́ᾱ tṑ xeníā	τᾱ̀ς ξενῐ́ᾱς tā̀s xeníās
Vocative	ξενῐ́ᾱ xeníā	ξενῐ́ᾱ xeníā	ξενῐ́αι xeníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

See the etymology of the main entry.

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xeníā)

inflection of ξένῐος (xénios):
1. feminine nominative and vocative singular
2. feminine nominative, accusative, and vocative dual

ξενία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ξενία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ξενία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ξενία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3578 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hospitality idem, page 407.

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality”)

ξενία • (xenía) m (plural ξενίες)

declension of ξενία

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