Ῥωσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ῥωσσία (Rhōssía)

Etymology

From Ῥῶς (Rhôs) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/ → /roˈsi.a/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /roˈsi.a/

Noun

Ῥωσία • (Rhōsía) f (genitive Ῥωσίας); first declension

1. (Koine, Byzantine) Russia (a country in Europe and Asia)
   • Constantine VII, Adm. 71

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ; τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥωσίᾱ hē Rhōsíā
Genitive	τῆς Ῥωσίᾱς tês Rhōsíās
Dative	τῇ Ῥωσίᾳ têi Rhōsíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥωσίᾱν tḕn Rhōsíān
Vocative	Ῥωσίᾱ Rhōsíā

Descendants

• Greek: Ρωσία f sg (Rosía)
• → Old Church Slavonic: Роусиꙗ (Rusija)
  • Bulgarian: Руси́я (Rusíja)
• → Medieval Latin: Rōssia f sg
• → Middle Russian: Росі́ꙗ f sg (Rosíja), Россі́ꙗ f sg (Rossíja)
  • Russian: Росси́я (Rossíja) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Belarusian: Расі́я f sg (Rasíja)
  • → Polish: Rosja f sg
  • → Carpathian Rusyn: Росі́я f sg (Rosíja)
  • → Ukrainian: Росі́я f sg (Rosíja)

Further reading

• Sophocles, E. A. (1900) Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 974