Μακεδονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μᾰκεδονῐ́η (Makedoníē) — Ionic
• Μᾰκηδονῐ́ᾱ (Makēdoníā)

Etymology

From Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn, “Macedonian”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/ → /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/ → /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.ke.do.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.ke.doˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.ce.ðoˈni.a/

Proper noun

Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ • (Makedoníā) f (genitive Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Macedon, Macedonia (an ancient Greek kingdom in the north of the Greek peninsula)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ hē Makedoníā
Genitive	τῆς Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱς tês Makedoníās
Dative	τῇ Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾳ têi Makedoníāi
Accusative	τὴν Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱν tḕn Makedoníān
Vocative	Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ Makedoníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn)
• Μᾰκεδονῐκός (Makedonikós)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: Maqedonia
• → Alemannic German: Makedonien
• → Arabic: مَقَدُونْيَا (maqadūnyā)
• → Armenian: Մակեդոնիա (Makedonia)
• → Aromanian: Machedonia
• → Asturian: Macedonia
• → Azerbaijani: Makedoniya
• → Basque: Mazedonia
• → Belarusian: Македонія (Makjedónija)
• → Breton: Makedonia
• → Bulgarian: Македония (Makedonija)
• → Catalan: Macedònia
• → Cebuano: Macedonia
• → Chuvash: Македони (Mak̬edoni)
• → Czech: Makedonie
• → Danish: Makedonien
• → Dutch: Macedonië
• → English: Macedonia
• → Estonian: Makedoonia
• → Faroese: Makedónia
• → Finnish: Makedonia
• → Franco-Provençal: Macèdonie
• → French: Macédoine
• → West Frisian: Masedoanje
• → Galician: Macedonia
• → Georgian: მაკედონია (maḳedonia)
• → German: Makedonien
• → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰 (makidōnja)
• Greek: Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
• → Haitian Creole: Masedoni
• → Hebrew: מקדוניה (Makedonya)
• → Hindi: मैसिडोनिया (maisiḍoniyā)
• → Hungarian: Macedónia
• → Icelandic: Makedónía
• → Indonesian: Makedonia
• → Italian: Macedonia
• → Japanese: マケドニア (Makedonia)
• → Low German: Makedonien
• → Kazakh: Македония (Makedoniä)
• → Korean: 마케도니아 (Makedonia)
• → Latin: Macedonia
• → Latvian: Maķedonija
• → Limburgish: Macedonië
• → Lithuanian: Makedonija
• → Macedonian: Македонија (Makedonija)
• → Malay: Macedonia
• → Manx: Yn Vasseydoan
• → Nepali: म्यासेडोनिया (myāseḍoniyā)
• → Northern Kurdish: Makedonya
• → Norwegian: Makedonia
• → Occitan: Macedònia
• → Pashto: مقدونيه
• → Persian: مقدونیه
• → Piedmontese: Macedònia
• → Polish: Macedonia
• → Portuguese: Macedónia
• → Quechua: Makidunya
• → Romanian: Macedonia
• → Romani: Makedoniya
• → Russian: Македония (Makedonija)
• → Northern Sami: Makedonia
• → Samogitian: Makedonėjė
• → Serbo-Croatian: Македонија, Makedonija
• → Sicilian: Macidonia
• → Slovak: Macedónsko
• → Slovene: Makedonija
• → Spanish: Macedonia
• → Swahili: Masedonia
• → Swedish: Makedonien
• → Tagalog: Masedonya
• → Turkish: Makedonya
• → Ukrainian: Македонія (Makedonija)
• → Upper Sorbian: Makedonska
• → Uzbek: Makedoniya
• → Võro: Makõdoonia
• → Welsh: Macedonia
• → Waray-Waray: Masedonya

Further reading

• “Μακεδονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
• 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μᾰκεδονῐ́ᾱ (Makedoníā).

Proper noun

Μακεδονία • (Makedonía) f

1. Macedon, Macedonia (an ancient Greek kingdom in the north of the Greek peninsula, in the contemporary Balkans)
2. Macedonia (an administrative region of Greece)
3. Macedonia (a broader region of the Balkan peninsula, consisting of the administrative region of Macedonia in Greece, the country of North Macedonia and a bit of Bulgaria)
4. (rare outside longer phrases) North Macedonia (a the country to the north of Greece, formerly known as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia of Yugoslavia) (see Usage notes)

   Synonym: Βόρεια Μακεδονία (Vóreia Makedonía)

   • 1979, Giannēs Iōannidēs, Alekos Papapanagiōtou, "Αναμνήσεις" (Anamnēseis: provlēmata tēs politikēs tou KKE stēn ethnikē antistasē, 1940-1945) (Mémoires: problems of the Greek Communist Party policy during national Resistance 1940-1945), page 519 @books.google. (polytonic script):

     […] ἔφυγε ἀπό την ἕδρα τοῦ Γενικοῦ Στρατηγείου τοῦ ΛΑΣΓ στά τέλη τοῦ Όκτώβρη 1942 καί ἔφτασε στή Μακεδονία (Σκόπια) κατά τό Μάρτη τοῦ 1943.

     […] éphuge apó tēn hédra toû Genikoû Stratēgeíou toû LASG stá télē toû Óktṓbrē 1942 kaí éphtase stḗ Makedonía (Skópia) katá tó Mártē toû 1943.

     […] (he) left from the headquarters of LASG [People's Liberating Army of Yugoslavia] in the end of October 1942 and arrived at Macedonia (Skopje) approximately in March of 1943.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Μακεδονία.

Usage notes

• For the country "Republic of Macedonia" see "Macedonia naming dispute" on Wikipedia.) Expressions for the country in the 20th century included: Ομόσπονδη Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Omóspondi Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Federal Republic of Macedonia”), Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Laïkí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “People's Republic of Macedonia”), Σοσιαλιστική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Sosialistikí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Socialist Republic of Macedonia”), post-Yugoslav bare Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “Republic of Macedonia”), and πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (próin Giougkoslavikí Dimokratía tis Makedonías, “FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)”).

Declension

	singular
nominative	Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
genitive	Μακεδονίας (Makedonías)
accusative	Μακεδονία (Makedonía)
vocative	Μακεδονία (Makedonía)

Related terms

• Βόρεια Μακεδονία f (Vóreia Makedonía, “North Macedonia”) (Republic of North Macedonia)
• Μακεδόνας m (Makedónas, “male Macedonian”)
• Μακεδονίτης m (Makedonítis, “male Macedonian”)
• Μακεδόνισσα f (Makedónissa, “female Macedonian”)
• Μακεδονίτισσα f (Makedonítissa, “female Macedonian”)
• μακεδονικός (makedonikós, “Macedonian”, adjective)
• μακεδονίτικος (makedonítikos, “Macedonian”, adjective)
• μακεδονομάχος m (makedonomáchos, “Macedonian warrior”)
• παμμακεδονικός (pammakedonikós, “pan-Macedonian”, adjective)

 

See also

• Μακεδονία on Wikipedia.Wikipedia