ἄγνοια
See also: άγνοια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”) + -ιᾰ (-ia, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ɡnoi̯.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡny.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣny.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣny.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣni.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ • (ágnoia) f (genitive ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς); first declension
- The state of not knowing or perceiving: ignorance, unawareness
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ; τῆς ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ hē ágnoia | τὼ ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ tṑ agnoíā | αἱ ᾰ̓́γνοιαι hai ágnoiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς tês agnoíās | τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοίαιν toîn agnoíain | τῶν ᾰ̓γνοιῶν tôn agnoiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓γνοίᾳ têi agnoíāi | τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοίαιν toîn agnoíain | ταῖς ᾰ̓γνοίαις taîs agnoíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰν tḕn ágnoian | τὼ ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ tṑ agnoíā | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς tā̀s agnoíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ ágnoia | ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ agnoíā | ᾰ̓́γνοιαι ágnoiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- άγνοια f (ágnoia, “ignorance”)
References
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἄγνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G52 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.
- blindness idem, page 83.
- ignorance idem, page 414.
- unconsciousness idem, page 910.