πότνια
Ancient Greek
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Hellenic *pótnia, from Proto-Indo-European *pótnih₂. Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 (po-ti-ni-ja), Sanskrit पत्नी (patnī, “mistress, wife”), Lithuanian pati (“wife”).
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.tni.a/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tni.a/
 
Noun
    
πότνιᾰ • (pótnia) f (genitive ποτνίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πότνιᾰ hē pótnia  | 
τὼ ποτνίᾱ tṑ potníā  | 
αἱ πότνιαι hai pótniai  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ποτνίᾱς tês potníās  | 
τοῖν ποτνίαιν toîn potníain  | 
τῶν ποτνιῶν tôn potniôn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ποτνίᾳ têi potníāi  | 
τοῖν ποτνίαιν toîn potníain  | 
ταῖς ποτνίαις taîs potníais  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πότνιᾰν tḕn pótnian  | 
τὼ ποτνίᾱ tṑ potníā  | 
τᾱ̀ς ποτνίᾱς tā̀s potníās  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πότνιᾰ pótnia  | 
ποτνίᾱ potníā  | 
πότνιαι pótniai  | ||||||||||
| Notes: | 
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- An alternative vocative form is πότνα (pótna).
 
References
    
- “πότνια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “πότνια”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
 
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