Relating to athenian culture or architecture marked by the qualities that were characteristic of the athenians.
Attic greek syllables.
Aquatic asthmatic climatic dogmatic dramatic ecstatic emphatic erratic fanatic hepatic lymphatic phosphatic pneumatic pragmatic prismatic prostatic rheumatic schematic socratic thematic traumatic.
Words with an acute upon the final syllable do not receive an additional acute but always have an acute and not a grave.
As opposed to ionic attic has tt instead of ss as in thalatta vs.
Three syllable words that rhyme with attic.
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.
Greek grammar cambridge harvard university press 1956 pp 41 43.
Politeia cretan politēia constitution both from politewia whose w is dropped.
The voice rises or falls a little when the accented syllable is pronounced.
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.
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Accent and accent marking in ancient greek.
In attic greek any single consonant and many consonant clusters can occur as a syllable onset the beginning of a syllable.
For other non attic.
Six stop clusters occur.
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.
All of them agree in voice onset time and begin with a labial or velar and end with a dental.
By the time of koine greek the accent may have been stress.
The last 3 syllables and the accents acute circumflex grave ultima penult antepenult more examples.
Persistent accentuation a and o declension consonant declension.
δός μοι not δὸς μοι.
Ancient greek had a tonal or pitch accent not a stress accent such as is found in latin english and many european languages.
Most teachers allow their students to use a stress accent when pronouncing greek because the music pitch accent is difficult.
Certain consonant clusters occur as onsets while others do not occur.
There are also several historical forms.
Thalassa sea and rr instead of rs as in tharreō vs.
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.