Λευκωσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λευκός (leukós, “white”) or λεύκη (leúkē, “poplar”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /leu̯.kɔː.sí.aː/ → /leɸ.koˈsi.a/ → /lef.koˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /leu̯.kɔː.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /leʍ.koˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leɸ.koˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/

Proper noun

Λευκωσία • (Leukōsía) f (genitive Λευκωσίᾱς); first declension

1. an island off Campania
2. (Byzantine) alternative form of Λευκουσία (Leukousía, “Nicosia”)

Declension

First declension of ἡ Λευκωσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Λευκωσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Λευκωσῐ́ᾱ hē Leukōsĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Λευκωσῐ́ᾱς tês Leukōsĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Λευκωσῐ́ᾳ tēî Leukōsĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Λευκωσῐ́ᾱν tḕn Leukōsĭ́ān
Vocative	Λευκωσῐ́ᾱ Leukōsĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• Λευκωσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Λευκωσία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020

Greek

Greek Wikipedia has an article on:

Λευκωσία

Wikipedia ^el

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Nicosia

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Λευκωσία (Leukōsía), variant of Λευκουσία (Leukousía).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /lef.koˈsi.a/

Proper noun

Λευκωσία • (Lefkosía) f

1. Nicosia (the capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus)

Descendants

• Danish: Lefkousia
• English: Lefkosia
• Irish: Leafcóis
• Italian: Lefkosia
• Macedonian: Левкозија (Levkozija)
• Spanish: Lefkosia