ἀνία

See also: ανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀνίη (aníē) — Ionic
ὀνία (onía) — Aeolic

Etymology

Unknown. The connection with Sanskrit अमीव (amīva, “pain, grief”) requires an unwarranted dissimilation m-ṷ > n-ṷ and should be rejected. As remarked by Nikolaev, derivation from *h₂eys- (“to search”) is semantically not very convincing; he proposed instead to connect the root *h₂eis(h₂) (“to refresh”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.nǐː.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/

Noun

ἀνῑ́ᾱ • (anī́ā) f (genitive ἀνῑ́ᾱς); first declension

grief, sorrow, distress, trouble

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ hē ănī́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ tṑ ănī́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓νῖαι hai ănîai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱς tês ănī́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓νῑ́αιν toîn ănī́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓νῑῶν tôn ănīôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾳ tēî ănī́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓νῑ́αιν toîn ănī́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓νῑ́αις taîs ănī́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱν tḕn ănī́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ tṑ ănī́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱς tā̀s ănī́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ ănī́ā	ᾰ̓νῑ́ᾱ ănī́ā	ᾰ̓νῖαι ănîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀνιάζω (aniázō)
ἀνιαρός (aniarós)
ἀνιάω (aniáō)

Descendants

Greek: ανία (anía)

References

“ἀνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀνία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN