ἀγράμματος
See also: αγράμματος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, privative alpha) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + -τος (-tos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡrám.ma.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈɡram.ma.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɣram.ma.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈɣram.ma.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈɣra.ma.tos/
Adjective
ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτος • (agrámmatos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον); second declension
- without learning, unlettered, illiterate
- Antonym: ἐγγράμματος (engrámmatos)
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.2.20
- 400 BCE – 200 BCE, Damoxenus, Collected Works 2.12
- 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Fragments 236
- Palatine Anthology 11.154
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.99
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 23A
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.195
- 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.9.10
- Synonym of ἄγραπτος (ágraptos)
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 295A
- (of animals) unable to utter articulate sounds
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 488A.33
- (of sounds) inarticulate
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Interpretation 16A.29
- 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 3.107
- 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, On Abstinence 3.3
- 550 CE – 650 CE, Eustratios of Constantinople, In Analyticorum Posteriorum Librum Secundum Commentarium 102.19
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Poems 2
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Fragments 47.22
Inflection
Second declension of ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτος; ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτος agrámmatos | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον agrámmaton | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτοι agrámmatoi | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ agrámmata | ||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́του agrammátou | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́του agrammátou | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοιν agrammátoin | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοιν agrammátoin | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́των agrammátōn | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́των agrammátōn | ||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τῳ agrammátōi | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τῳ agrammátōi | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοιν agrammátoin | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοιν agrammátoin | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοις agrammátois | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τοις agrammátois | ||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον agrámmaton | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον agrámmaton | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τους agrammátous | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ agrámmata | ||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτε agrámmate | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτον agrámmaton | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τω agrammátō | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτοι agrámmatoi | ᾰ̓γρᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ agrámmata | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰ́τως agrammátōs | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰτώτερος agrammatṓteros | ᾰ̓γρᾰμμᾰτώτᾰτος agrammatṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αγράμματος (agrámmatos)
Further reading
- “ἀγράμματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγράμματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγράμματος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγράμματος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G62 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.
- boorish idem, page 89.
- gross idem, page 374.
- ignoramus idem, page 414.
- illiterate idem, page 416.
- uneducated idem, page 916.
- uninstructed idem, page 922.
- unlearned idem, page 924.
- unlettered idem, page 924.
- unpolished idem, page 927.
- untutored idem, page 935.
- vulgar idem, page 958.