Ὀλυμπιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpíā, “Olympia”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς • (Olumpiás) f (genitive Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος); third declension

  1. the Olympiad
  2. A female given name: Olympias

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς; τῆς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς
hē Olumpiás		 τὼ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε
tṑ Olumpiáde		 αἱ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες
hai Olumpiádes
Genitive τῆς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δος
tês Olumpiádos		 τοῖν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δοιν
toîn Olumpiádoin		 τῶν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δων
tôn Olumpiádōn
Dative τῇ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δῐ
têi Olumpiádi		 τοῖν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δοιν
toîn Olumpiádoin		 ταῖς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́σῐ / Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́σῐν
taîs Olumpiási(n)
Accusative τὴν Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δᾰ
tḕn Olumpiáda		 τὼ Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε
tṑ Olumpiáde		 τᾱ̀ς Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δᾰς
tā̀s Olumpiádas
Vocative Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς
Olumpiás		 Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δε
Olumpiáde		 Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες
Olumpiádes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants
Descendants of Ὀλυμπιάς (Olympiad)
  • Italian: Olimpiade
  • Polish: Olimpiada
  • Portuguese: Olimpíada
  • Russian: Олимпиада (Olimpiada)
  • Spanish: Olimpiada
  • Swedish: Olympiad
Descendants of Ὀλυμπιάς (Olympias)

References
  • Ὀλυμπιάς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ὀλυμπιάς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ὀλυμπιάς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Ὀλυμπιάς 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 1,019
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