πενία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πένης (pénēs, “poor”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈni.a/
Noun
πενῐ́ᾱ • (penĭ́ā) f (genitive πενῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- poverty, indigence, beggary
- Antonyms: περῐουσῐ́ᾱ (perĭousĭ́ā), πλοῦτος (ploûtos)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πενῐ́ᾱ hē penĭ́ā |
τὼ πενῐ́ᾱ tṑ penĭ́ā |
αἱ πενῐ́αι hai penĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πενῐ́ᾱς tês penĭ́ās |
τοῖν πενῐ́αιν toîn penĭ́ain |
τῶν πενῐῶν tôn penĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πενῐ́ᾳ tēî penĭ́āi |
τοῖν πενῐ́αιν toîn penĭ́ain |
ταῖς πενῐ́αις taîs penĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πενῐ́ᾱν tḕn penĭ́ān |
τὼ πενῐ́ᾱ tṑ penĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς πενῐ́ᾱς tā̀s penĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πενῐ́ᾱ penĭ́ā |
πενῐ́ᾱ penĭ́ā |
πενῐ́αι penĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πενία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.