ἀφωνία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ᾰ̓φωνῐ́η (aphōníē) – Ionic
Etymology
ἄφωνος (áphōnos, “voiceless”) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pʰɔː.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.pʰoˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɸoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.foˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.foˈni.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ • (aphōníā) f (genitive ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- speechlessness
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 3.17γ
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 198c
- mispronunciation
- 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.36
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ hē aphōníā | τὼ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ aphōníā | αἱ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αι hai aphōníai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς tês aphōníās | τοῖν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αιν toîn aphōníain | τῶν ᾰ̓φωνῐῶν tôn aphōniôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾳ têi aphōníāi | τοῖν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αιν toîn aphōníain | ταῖς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αις taîs aphōníais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn aphōníān | τὼ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ aphōníā | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aphōníās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ aphōníā | ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ aphōníā | ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αι aphōníai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀφωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀφωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀφωνία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dumbness idem, page 256.
- speechlessness idem, page 800.