ἀβουλία
See also: αβουλία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀβουλίη (aboulíē) – Ionic
Etymology
ἀ- (a-, “not”, alpha privativum) + βουλή (boulḗ, “will, determination, decision”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract-noun-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.buː.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.buˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βuˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vuˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vuˈli.a/
Noun
ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ • (aboulíā) f (genitive ἀβουλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- ill-advisedness, thoughtlessness
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.41
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.9.9B
- Herodotus, Histories 7.210
- Herodotus, Histories 8.57
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 4.2.6
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 16.9D
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 398
- Sophocles, Electra 429
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 750
- irresolution
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.75.3
- indecision
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 119
Declension
First declension of ἡ ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀβουλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ hē aboulíā | τὼ ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ tṑ aboulíā | αἱ ἀβουλῐ́αι hai aboulíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀβουλῐ́ᾱς tês aboulíās | τοῖν ἀβουλῐ́αιν toîn aboulíain | τῶν ἀβουλῐῶν tôn abouliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀβουλῐ́ᾳ têi aboulíāi | τοῖν ἀβουλῐ́αιν toîn aboulíain | ταῖς ἀβουλῐ́αις taîs aboulíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀβουλῐ́ᾱν tḕn aboulíān | τὼ ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ tṑ aboulíā | τᾱ̀ς ἀβουλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aboulíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ aboulíā | ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ aboulíā | ἀβουλῐ́αι aboulíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → New Latin: abūlia
- → English: abulia, aboulia, aboulomania
- → Finnish: abulia
- → Italian: abulia
- → Portuguese: abulia
- → Russian: абулия (abulija)
- → Spanish: abulia
References
- “ἀβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀβουλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀβουλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἀβουλία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- folly idem, page 332.
- impolicy idem, page 422.
- imprudence idem, page 425.
- incautiousness idem, page 427.
- indiscretion idem, page 434.
- injudiciousness idem, page 441.
- lunacy idem, page 504.
- policy idem, page 624.
- rashness idem, page 673.
- recklessness idem, page 679.
- senselessness idem, page 753.
- short-sightedness idem, page 769.
- silliness idem, page 776.
- stupidity idem, page 830.
- temerity idem, page 859.
- thoughtlessness idem, page 868.
- unwisdom idem, page 937.