ἀγνωσία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀγνώς (agnṓs, “unknown, ignorant”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡnɔː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.ɡnoˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
Noun
ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ • (agnōsíā) f (genitive ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- ignorance
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 9
- 150 BCE – 50 BCE, Demetrius Lacon, Herculaneum papyri 1055.15
- 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1204
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 205
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66
- 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 267B
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 13.1
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:34
- obscurity
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 238D
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ hē agnōsíā | τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsíā | αἱ ἀγνωσῐ́αι hai agnōsíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tês agnōsíās | τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsíain | τῶν ἀγνωσῐῶν tôn agnōsiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾳ têi agnōsíāi | τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsíain | ταῖς ἀγνωσῐ́αις taîs agnōsíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱν tḕn agnōsíān | τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsíā | τᾱ̀ς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s agnōsíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsíā | ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsíā | ἀγνωσῐ́αι agnōsíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Catalan: agnòsia
- → English: agnosia
- → German: Agnosie
References
- “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγνωσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγνωσία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G56 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ignorance idem, page 414.