μισανθρωπία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσάνθρωπος (mīsánthrōpos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /miː.san.tʰrɔː.pí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mi.san.tʰroˈpi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.san.θroˈpi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.san.θroˈpi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.san.θroˈpi.a/

Noun

μῑσανθρωπίᾱ • (mīsanthrōpíā) f (genitive μῑσανθρωπίᾱς); first declension

misanthropy, hatred of humankind

Declension

First declension of ἡ μῑσανθρωπίᾱ; τῆς μῑσανθρωπίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ μῑσανθρωπίᾱ hē mīsanthrōpíā
Genitive	τῆς μῑσανθρωπίᾱς tês mīsanthrōpíās
Dative	τῇ μῑσανθρωπίᾳ tēî mīsanthrōpíāi
Accusative	τὴν μῑσανθρωπίᾱν tḕn mīsanthrōpíān
Vocative	μῑσανθρωπίᾱ mīsanthrōpíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

→ Albanian: mizantropi
→ Armenian: միզանտրոպիա (mizantropia)
→ Asturian: misantropía
→ Basque: misantropia
→ Belarusian: мізантро́пія (mizantrópija)
→ Bulgarian: мизантро́пия (mizantrópija)
→ Catalan: misantropia
→ Czech: misantropie
→ Danish: misantropi
→ Dutch: misantropie
→ English: misanthropy
→ Esperanto: mizantropio
→ Estonian: misantroopia
→ Finnish: misantropia
→ French: misanthropie
→ Galician: misantropía
→ Georgian: მიზანთროპია (mizantroṗia)
→ German: Misanthropie
Greek: μισανθρωπία (misanthropía)
→ Hebrew: מִיזַנְתְּרוֹפְּיָה (mizantrópya)
→ Ido: mizantropeso
→ Italian: misantropia
→ Latin: mīsanthrōpia
→ Latvian: mizantropija
→ Lithuanian: mizantropija
→ Macedonian: мизантро́пија (mizantrópija)
→ Mingrelian: მიზანთროპი (mizantroṗi)
→ Norwegian Bokmål: misantropi
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: misantropi
→ Occitan: misantropia
→ Polish: mizantropia
→ Portuguese: misantropia
→ Romanian: mizantropie
→ Russian: мизантро́пия (mizantrópija)
→ Samogitian: mėzantruopėjė
→ Serbo-Croatian: mizantròpija
→ Slovak: mizantropia
→ Slovene: mizantropíja
→ Spanish: misantropía
→ Swedish: misantropi
→ Turkish: mizantropi
→ Ukrainian: мізантро́пія (mizantrópija)
→ Yiddish: מיזאַנטראָפּיע (mizantropye)

Further reading

μισανθρωπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μισανθρωπία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“μισανθρωπία”, 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.
- inhumanity idem, page 441.
- misanthropy idem, page 532.