ἀήθεια
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀήθειη (aḗtheiē) — Ionic
- ἀηθία (aēthía)
Etymology
From ἀήθης (aḗthēs, “unaccustomed”) + -ιᾰ (-iă).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɛ̌ː.tʰeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈe̝.tʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈi.θi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈi.θi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈi.θi.a/
Noun
ἀήθειᾰ • (aḗtheiă) f (genitive ἀηθείᾱς); first declension
- unaccustomedness, novelty of a situation
- inexperience of a thing
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀήθειᾰ hē aḗtheiă |
αἱ ἀήθειαι hai aḗtheiai | |||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀηθείᾱς tês aētheíās |
τῶν ἀηθειῶν tôn aētheiôn | |||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀηθείᾳ tēî aētheíāi |
ταῖς ἀηθείαις taîs aētheíais | |||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀήθειᾰν tḕn aḗtheiăn |
τᾱ̀ς ἀηθείᾱς tā̀s aētheíās | |||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀήθειᾰ aḗtheiă |
ἀήθειαι aḗtheiai | |||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀήθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀήθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)