ἀμαθία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + μανθάνω (manthánō) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ma.tʰí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.maˈtʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.maˈθi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.maˈθi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.maˈθi.a/
Noun
ἀμᾰθίᾱ • (amăthíā) f (genitive ἀμᾰθίᾱς); first declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓μᾰθῐ́ᾱ hē ămăthĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓μᾰθῐ́ᾱς tês ămăthĭ́ās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓μᾰθῐ́ᾳ tēî ămăthĭ́āi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓μᾰθῐ́ᾱν tḕn ămăthĭ́ān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓μᾰθῐ́ᾱ ămăthĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αμάθεια (amátheia)
Further reading
- ἀμαθία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμαθία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀμαθία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀμαθία”, 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.
- backwardness idem, page 58.
- denseness idem, page 210.
- dulness idem, page 256.
- folly idem, page 332.
- ignorance idem, page 414.
- obtuseness idem, page 568.
- senselessness idem, page 753.
- silliness idem, page 776.
- slowness idem, page 786.
- sluggishness idem, page 786.
- stupidity idem, page 830.
- witlessness idem, page 985.