ἔννοια

ἔννοια

See also: έννοια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐννοέω (ennoéō, “to consider, reflect upon”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.noi̯.a/ → /ˈen.ny.a/ → /ˈe.ni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /én.noi̯.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ny.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ny.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ny.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ni.a/

Noun

ἔννοιᾰ • (énnoia) f (genitive ἐννοίᾱς); first declension

1. the act of thinking, thought, consideration
   1. a thought, notion, conception
   2. a thought, intent, design
2. (lexicography) the sense of a word
3. (in rhetoric) a thought put into words, a sentence

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἔννοιᾰ; τῆς ἐννοίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔννοιᾰ hē énnoia	τὼ ἐννοίᾱ tṑ ennoíā	αἱ ἔννοιαι hai énnoiai
Genitive	τῆς ἐννοίᾱς tês ennoíās	τοῖν ἐννοίαιν toîn ennoíain	τῶν ἐννοιῶν tôn ennoiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐννοίᾳ têi ennoíāi	τοῖν ἐννοίαιν toîn ennoíain	ταῖς ἐννοίαις taîs ennoíais
Accusative	τὴν ἔννοιᾰν tḕn énnoian	τὼ ἐννοίᾱ tṑ ennoíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐννοίᾱς tā̀s ennoíās
Vocative	ἔννοιᾰ énnoia	ἐννοίᾱ ennoíā	ἔννοιαι énnoiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: έννοια (énnoia)

Further reading

• “ἔννοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔννοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔννοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔννοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• G1771 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.
  • conceit idem, page 154.
  • consideration idem, page 163.
  • debate idem, page 199.
  • deliberation idem, page 207.
  • design idem, page 215.
  • fancy idem, page 306.
  • idea idem, page 413.
  • imagination idem, page 416.
  • intention idem, page 449.
  • meditation idem, page 522.
  • mind idem, page 530.
  • notion idem, page 562.
  • plan idem, page 617.
  • project idem, page 653.
  • purpose idem, page 659.
  • reflection idem, page 684.
  • scheme idem, page 739.
  • supposition idem, page 842.
  • thought idem, page 868.
  • will idem, page 979.