εἰρωνεία
See also: ειρωνεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἴρων (eírōn, “one who feigns ignorance”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.rɔː.něː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
Noun
εἰρωνείᾱ • (eirōneíā) f (genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension
- hypocrisy, deception, especially a feigned ignorance
- An assumed appearance, pretext
- The act of sealioning.
Inflection
First declension of ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ; τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ hē eirōneíā | τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā | αἱ εἰρωνεῖαι hai eirōneîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς tês eirōneíās | τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain | τῶν εἰρωνειῶν tôn eirōneiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ εἰρωνείᾳ têi eirōneíāi | τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain | ταῖς εἰρωνείαις taîs eirōneíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν εἰρωνείᾱν tḕn eirōneíān | τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā | τᾱ̀ς εἰρωνείᾱς tā̀s eirōneíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā | εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā | εἰρωνεῖαι eirōneîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: īrōnīa
References
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰρωνεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- εἰρωνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dissimulation idem, page 239.
- hypocrisy idem, page 412.
- irony idem, page 459.