κακοφωνία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κᾰκόφωνος (kăkóphōnos, “ill-sounding, producing disagreeable sounds”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), that from κακο- (kako-, “bad”) +‎ φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.pʰɔː.ní.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.pʰoˈni.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.ɸoˈni.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.foˈni.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.foˈni.a/

Noun

κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ • (kăkophōnĭ́ā) f (genitive κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

an ill-sound, cacophony

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ hē kăkophōnĭ́ā	τὼ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăkophōnĭ́ā	αἱ κᾰκοφωνῐ́αι hai kăkophōnĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς tês kăkophōnĭ́ās	τοῖν κᾰκοφωνῐ́αιν toîn kăkophōnĭ́ain	τῶν κᾰκοφωνῐῶν tôn kăkophōnĭôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾳ tēî kăkophōnĭ́āi	τοῖν κᾰκοφωνῐ́αιν toîn kăkophōnĭ́ain	ταῖς κᾰκοφωνῐ́αις taîs kăkophōnĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn kăkophōnĭ́ān	τὼ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăkophōnĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kăkophōnĭ́ās
Vocative	κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ kăkophōnĭ́ā	κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ kăkophōnĭ́ā	κᾰκοφωνῐ́αι kăkophōnĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

εὐφωνῐ́ᾱ (euphōnĭ́ā, “euphony”)

Descendants

Russian: какофо́ния f (kakofónija)

References

“κακοφωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κακοφωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette