μᾶζα

See also: μάζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μαγῆμαι (magêmai) + -ια (-ia), the former component from μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mâːz.da/ → /ˈma.za/ → /ˈma.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mâːz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.za/

Noun

μᾶζᾰ • (mâza) f (genitive μᾱ́ζης); first declension

1. barley-bread or cake; lump, mass

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾶζᾰ hē mâza	τὼ μᾱ́ζᾱ tṑ mā́zā	αἱ μᾶζαι hai mâzai
Genitive	τῆς μᾱ́ζης tês mā́zēs	τοῖν μᾱ́ζαιν toîn mā́zain	τῶν μᾱζῶν tôn māzôn
Dative	τῇ μᾱ́ζῃ têi mā́zēi	τοῖν μᾱ́ζαιν toîn mā́zain	ταῖς μᾱ́ζαις taîs mā́zais
Accusative	τὴν μᾶζᾰν tḕn mâzan	τὼ μᾱ́ζᾱ tṑ mā́zā	τᾱ̀ς μᾱ́ζᾱς tā̀s mā́zās
Vocative	μᾶζᾰ mâza	μᾱ́ζᾱ mā́zā	μᾶζαι mâzai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ μᾶζᾰ; τῆς μᾱ́ζης (Attic)

Derived terms

• κῠνόμᾱζον (kunómāzon)
• μᾱζαγόας (māzagóas)
• μᾱζαγρέτας (māzagrétas)
• μᾱζάω (māzáō)
• μᾱζηρός (māzērós)
• μᾱ́ζινος (mā́zinos)
• μᾱζίον (māzíon)
• μᾱζίσκη (māzískē)
• μᾱζονόμος (māzonómos)
• μᾱζοπέπτης (māzopéptēs)
• μᾱζοποιέω (māzopoiéō)
• μᾱζοποιός (māzopoiós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μάζα (máza)
• → Abkhaz: амажәа (amaẑʷa), амаҙәа (amaźʷa) — Bzyb
  • → Mingrelian: მაზვა (mazva)
• → Abaza: мажва (mažʷa)
• → Adyghe: мэджа (mɛdža)
• → Kabardian: мэжа (mɛža)
• → Latin: massa (see there for further descendants)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μᾶζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 890

Further reading

• “μᾶζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μᾶζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μᾶζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barley idem, page 63.
  • bread idem, page 94.
  • cake idem, page 108.