εἰρωνεία
See also: ειρωνεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἰρωνεύομαι (eirōneúomai, “to feign ignorance”, from εἴρων) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.rɔː.něː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.roˈni.a/
Noun
εἰρωνείᾱ • (eirōneíā) f (genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension
- hypocrisy, deception, especially a feigned ignorance
- An assumed appearance, pretext
- The act of sealioning.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ hē eirōneíā |
τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā |
αἱ εἰρωνεῖαι hai eirōneîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς tês eirōneíās |
τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain |
τῶν εἰρωνειῶν tôn eirōneiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ εἰρωνείᾳ tēî eirōneíāi |
τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain |
ταῖς εἰρωνείαις taîs eirōneíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν εἰρωνείᾱν tḕn eirōneíān |
τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā |
τᾱ̀ς εἰρωνείᾱς tā̀s eirōneíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā |
εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā |
εἰρωνεῖαι eirōneîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: īrōnīa, hyronia (Medieval Latin)
References
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰρωνεία 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
- εἰρωνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dissimulation idem, page 239.
- hypocrisy idem, page 412.
- irony idem, page 459.