πενία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πένης (pénēs, “poor”) or πενέω (penéō, “to be poor”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
Noun
πενῐ́ᾱ • (peníā) f (genitive πενῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- poverty, indigence, beggary
- Antonyms: περῐουσῐ́ᾱ (periousíā), πλοῦτος (ploûtos)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πενῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πενῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πενῐ́ᾱ hē peníā | τὼ πενῐ́ᾱ tṑ peníā | αἱ πενῐ́αι hai peníai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πενῐ́ᾱς tês peníās | τοῖν πενῐ́αιν toîn peníain | τῶν πενῐῶν tôn peniôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πενῐ́ᾳ têi peníāi | τοῖν πενῐ́αιν toîn peníain | ταῖς πενῐ́αις taîs peníais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πενῐ́ᾱν tḕn peníān | τὼ πενῐ́ᾱ tṑ peníā | τᾱ̀ς πενῐ́ᾱς tā̀s peníās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πενῐ́ᾱ peníā | πενῐ́ᾱ peníā | πενῐ́αι peníai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πενία 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.
- beggary idem, page 70.
- indigence idem, page 433.
- narrow idem, page 551.
- need idem, page 554.
- neediness idem, page 554.
- penury idem, page 604.
- poverty idem, page 630.
- want idem, page 961.