ζυγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), because the field maple was mainly used to make yokes.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡí.aː/ → /zyˈʝi.a/ → /ziˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zyˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈʝi.a/

Noun

ζῠγῐ́ᾱ • (zugíā) f (genitive ζῠγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. field maple (Acer campestre)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ hē zugíā	τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zugíā	αἱ ζῠγῐ́αι hai zugíai
Genitive	τῆς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tês zugíās	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zugíain	τῶν ζῠγῐῶν tôn zugiôn
Dative	τῇ ζῠγῐ́ᾳ têi zugíāi	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́αιν toîn zugíain	ταῖς ζῠγῐ́αις taîs zugíais
Accusative	τὴν ζῠγῐ́ᾱν tḕn zugíān	τὼ ζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ zugíā	τᾱ̀ς ζῠγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s zugíās
Vocative	ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zugíā	ζῠγῐ́ᾱ zugíā	ζῠγῐ́αι zugíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζῠ́γῐνος (zúginos)

Further reading

• “ζυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζυγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN