ἀκοή
See also: ακοή
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀκουή (akouḗ) – Epic
Etymology
From ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) + -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ko.ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.koˈe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.koˈi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.koˈi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.koˈi/
Noun
ᾰ̓κοή • (akoḗ) f (genitive ᾰ̓κοῆς); first declension
- a hearing, the sound heard
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.634
- the thing heard, news, tidings
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.308
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.701
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 21A
- the thing heard, report, saying, fame
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.162
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.174
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.135
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.29
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.126
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 61D
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.73
- the sense of hearing
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.38
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65B
- the act of hearing, hearing
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 690
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 30
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1412
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1496
- 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1480
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 900A
- 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 962
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 24.5.9
- the ear
- 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 2.12
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.6.12
- a hearing, a listening
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 142D
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κοή; τῆς ᾰ̓κοῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓κοή hē akoḗ | τὼ ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ tṑ akoā́ | αἱ ᾰ̓κοαί hai akoaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓κοῆς tês akoês | τοῖν ᾰ̓κοαῖν toîn akoaîn | τῶν ᾰ̓κοῶν tôn akoôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓κοῇ têi akoêi | τοῖν ᾰ̓κοαῖν toîn akoaîn | ταῖς ᾰ̓κοαῖς taîs akoaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓κοήν tḕn akoḗn | τὼ ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ tṑ akoā́ | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ς tā̀s akoā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓κοή akoḗ | ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ akoā́ | ᾰ̓κοαί akoaí | ||||||||||
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References
- “ἀκοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκοή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκοή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G189 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.
- ear idem, page 258.
- hearing idem, page 392.
- hearsay idem, page 392.
- tradition idem, page 885.