ἀκοή

See also: ακοή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀκουή (akouḗ) — Epic

Etymology

From ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) +‎ -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ko.ɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.koˈe̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.koˈi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.koˈi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.koˈi/

Noun

ᾰ̓κοή • (ăkoḗ) f (genitive ᾰ̓κοῆς); first declension

a hearing, the sound heard
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.634
1. the thing heard, news, tidings
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.308
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.701
  - 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 21A
2. the thing heard, report, saying, fame
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.162
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.174
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.135
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.29
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.126
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 61D
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.73
the sense of hearing
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.38
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65B
1. the act of hearing, hearing
  - 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 690
  - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 30
  - 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1412
  - 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1496
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1480
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 900A
  - 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 962
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 24.5.9
2. the ear
  - 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 2.12
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.6.12
a hearing, a listening
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 142D

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κοή; τῆς ᾰ̓κοῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓κοή hē ăkoḗ	τὼ ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ tṑ ăkoā́	αἱ ᾰ̓κοαί hai ăkoaí
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓κοῆς tês ăkoês	τοῖν ᾰ̓κοαῖν toîn ăkoaîn	τῶν ᾰ̓κοῶν tôn ăkoôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓κοῇ tēî ăkoēî	τοῖν ᾰ̓κοαῖν toîn ăkoaîn	ταῖς ᾰ̓κοαῖς taîs ăkoaîs
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓κοήν tḕn ăkoḗn	τὼ ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ tṑ ăkoā́	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ς tā̀s ăkoā́s
Vocative	ᾰ̓κοή ăkoḗ	ᾰ̓κοᾱ́ ăkoā́	ᾰ̓κοαί ăkoaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“ἀκοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀκοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀκοή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀκοή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
G189 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ear idem, page 258.
- hearing idem, page 392.
- hearsay idem, page 392.
- tradition idem, page 885.