Ἀσία
See also: Ασία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
There is no current consensus on the origin of the word. It originally applied only to Anatolia, and was later extended to its current definition. Possibly from Akkadian 𒀀𒋗 (“to go out, to rise”), a reference to the rising sun, hence “land of the sunrise.”[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
or
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈsi.a/
The first vowel is short in prose and long in verse.
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ἀσιαγενής (Asiagenḗs)
- Ἀσιανός (Asianós)
- Ἀσιαρχέω (Asiarkhéō)
- Ἀσιάρχης (Asiárkhēs)
- Ἀσιαρχία (Asiarkhía)
- Ἀσιαρχός (Asiarkhós)
- Ἀσιάς (Asiás)
- Ἀσιάτης (Asiátēs)
- Ἀσιατικός (Asiatikós)
- Ἀσιᾶτις (Asiâtis)
- Ἀσιατογεγής (Asiatogegḗs)
- Ἀσίηθεν (Asíēthen)
- Ἀσίς (Asís)
References
- Ἀσία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ἀσία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἀσία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- Ἀσία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G773 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.
- Asia idem, page 1002.
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,002, 1,003
- Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
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