γοητεία

From γόης (góēs, “sorcerer, wizard”) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā).

γοητείᾱ • (goēteíā) f (genitive γοητείᾱς); first declension

1. witchcraft
2. trickery

• Greek: γοητεία (goïteía)
• → Latin: goētia
  • Catalan: goècia
  • French: goétie
  • → English: goety

• γοητεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γοητεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• γοητεία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “γοητεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chicanery idem, page 129.
  • conjuring idem, page 160.
  • hocus pocus idem, page 402.
  • illusion idem, page 416.
  • imposition idem, page 423.
  • imposture idem, page 423.
  • jugglery idem, page 465.
  • legerdemain idem, page 484.
  • mummery idem, page 546.
  • quackery idem, page 662.
  • trickery idem, page 894.
  • witchcraft idem, page 983.

From Ancient Greek γοητεία (goēteía, “charm, jugglery, sorcery”), from Ancient Greek γόης (góēs, “sorcerer, wizard”), from Ancient Greek γοάω (goáō, “to groan, bewail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geh₃- (“to sing, cry”) or Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, invoke, cry out”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣo.iˈti.a/
• Hyphenation: γο‧η‧τεί‧α

γοητεία • (goïteía) f (uncountable)

1. charm, attractiveness

• γοητεύω (goïtévo, “to charm”)
• γοητευτικός (goïteftikós, “charming”)
• γοητευμένος (goïtevménos, “charmed, beguiled”)
• αγοήτευτος (agoḯteftos, “unbeguiled, uncharmed”)
• απογοητεύω (apogoïtévo, “to disappoint, to let down”)

• γούρι n (goúri, “charm, spell”)