ἀγνώς

Ancient Greek

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + the root of γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”). Compare ἄγνωτος (ágnōtos) and Latin īgnōtus.

ᾰ̓γνώς • (ăgnṓs) m or f (neuter —); third declension

in passive constructions:
1. (chiefly of persons) unknown
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.79
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 677
  - 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1008
  - 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 14
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137.2
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 375e
2. (of things) obscure, unintelligible
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1051
  - 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1001
3. obscure, ignoble
  - 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 18
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.12
  - (Can we find and add a quotation of Julianus Imperator to this entry?)
(in active constructions) ignorant
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 678
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.13
(active voice or passive voice) construed with the genitive
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.30
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.53.4
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 178a

Third declension of ἀγνώς; ἀγνώς (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἀγνώς agnṓs	ἀγνώς agnṓs	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτες agnôtes	ἀγνῶτᾰ agnôtă
Genitive	ἀγνῶτος agnôtos	ἀγνῶτος agnôtos	ἀγνώτοιν agnṓtoin	ἀγνώτοιν agnṓtoin	ἀγνώτων agnṓtōn	ἀγνώτων agnṓtōn
Dative	ἀγνῶτῐ agnôtĭ	ἀγνῶτῐ agnôtĭ	ἀγνώτοιν agnṓtoin	ἀγνώτοιν agnṓtoin	ἀγνῶσῐ / ἀγνῶσῐν agnôsĭ(n)	ἀγνῶσῐ / ἀγνῶσῐν agnôsĭ(n)
Accusative	ἀγνῶτᾰ agnôtă	ἀγνώς agnṓs	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτᾰς agnôtăs	ἀγνῶτᾰ agnôtă
Vocative	ἀγνώς agnṓs	ἀγνώς agnṓs	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτε agnôte	ἀγνῶτες agnôtes	ἀγνῶτᾰ agnôtă
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ἀγνώτως agnṓtōs		—		—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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“ἀγνώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀγνώς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀγνώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀγνώς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀγνώς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
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Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hypothetical idem, page 412.
- ignorant idem, page 414.
- stranger idem, page 823.
- unacquainted idem, page 906.
- unknown idem, page 923.