ἁγνότης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἁγνός (hagnós, “sacred, pure”) + -της (-tēs, abstract noun suffix). Cognate with Sanskrit यज्ञतति (yajñatati, “performance of a sacrifice”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ha.ɡnó.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)aˈɡno.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɣno.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈɣno.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈɣno.tis/
Noun
ἁγνότης • (hagnótēs) f (genitive ἁγνότητος); third declension
- purity, chastity
- 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 6:5
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἁγνότης; τῆς ἁγνότητος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἁγνότης hē hagnótēs | τὼ ἁγνότητε tṑ hagnótēte | αἱ ἁγνότητες hai hagnótētes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἁγνότητος tês hagnótētos | τοῖν ἁγνοτήτοιν toîn hagnotḗtoin | τῶν ἁγνοτήτων tôn hagnotḗtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἁγνότητῐ têi hagnótēti | τοῖν ἁγνοτήτοιν toîn hagnotḗtoin | ταῖς ἁγνότησῐ / ἁγνότησῐν taîs hagnótēsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἁγνότητᾰ tḕn hagnótēta | τὼ ἁγνότητε tṑ hagnótēte | τᾱ̀ς ἁγνότητᾰς tā̀s hagnótētas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἁγνότης hagnótēs | ἁγνότητε hagnótēte | ἁγνότητες hagnótētes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἁγνότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἁγνότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἁγνότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἁγνότης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G54 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible