δός μοι not δὸς μοι.
Attic greek syllables.
Relating to athenian culture or architecture marked by the qualities that were characteristic of the athenians.
Upon its final syllable.
The last 3 syllables and the accents acute circumflex grave ultima penult antepenult more examples.
Tharseō be confident continues to use the dual number rather than the plural to refer to pairs of things and in general preserves a greater number of irregular forms.
Ancient greek had a tonal or pitch accent not a stress accent such as is found in latin english and many european languages.
Accent and accent marking in ancient greek.
For other non attic.
Most teachers allow their students to use a stress accent when pronouncing greek because the music pitch accent is difficult.
The attic adjectival ending eios and corresponding noun ending both having two syllables with the diphthong ei stand in place of ēios with three syllables in other dialects.
There are also several historical forms.
As opposed to ionic attic has tt instead of ss as in thalatta vs.
All of them agree in voice onset time and begin with a labial or velar and end with a dental.
Six stop clusters occur.
Ancient greek was a pluricentric language divided into many dialects the main dialect groups are attic and ionic aeolic arcadocypriot and doric many of them with several subdivisions some dialects are found in standardized literary forms used in literature while others are attested only in inscriptions.
Certain consonant clusters occur as onsets while others do not occur.
In attic greek any single consonant and many consonant clusters can occur as a syllable onset the beginning of a syllable.
But in classical greek the accent originally was pitch not stress.
The accent of a word or phrase consisted in a raising of the pitch of the voice at the accented syllable.
Greek grammar cambridge harvard university press 1956 pp 41 43.
Refined relating to that dialect of ancient greek an ancient greek dialect spoken in attica euboea and the northern coastal regions of the aegean sea.
Thalassa sea and rr instead of rs as in tharreō vs.
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Politeia cretan politēia constitution both from politewia whose w is dropped.
Aquatic asthmatic climatic dogmatic dramatic ecstatic emphatic erratic fanatic hepatic lymphatic phosphatic pneumatic pragmatic prismatic prostatic rheumatic schematic socratic thematic traumatic.
Persistent accentuation a and o declension consonant declension.
The voice rises or falls a little when the accented syllable is pronounced.