ἀπάτη

See also: Ἀπάτη, απάτη, and άπατη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Beekes rejects Pederson's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass; path”) and tentatively derives the word from Pre-Greek, in view of semantically similar words like ἠπεροπεύς (ēperopeús, “cheat, deceiver”) and ἀπαφίσκω (apaphískō, “to cheat, beguile”), which appear related to ἀπάτη (apátē) but which are difficult to reconcile with Indo-European morphological processes.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pá.tɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.te̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.ti/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.ti/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.ti/

Noun

ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη • (ăpắtē) f (genitive ᾰ̓πᾰ́της); first declension

deceit, fraud

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη; τῆς ᾰ̓πᾰ́της (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη hē ăpắtē	τὼ ᾰ̓πᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ăpắtā	αἱ ᾰ̓πᾰ́ται hai ăpắtai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓πᾰ́της tês ăpắtēs	τοῖν ᾰ̓πᾰ́ταιν toîn ăpắtain	τῶν ᾰ̓πᾰτῶν tôn ăpătôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓πᾰ́τῃ tēî ăpắtēi	τοῖν ᾰ̓πᾰ́ταιν toîn ăpắtain	ταῖς ᾰ̓πᾰ́ταις taîs ăpắtais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓πᾰ́την tḕn ăpắtēn	τὼ ᾰ̓πᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ăpắtā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πᾰ́τᾱς tā̀s ăpắtās
Vocative	ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη ăpắtē	ᾰ̓πᾰ́τᾱ ăpắtā	ᾰ̓πᾰ́ται ăpắtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀπατάω (apatáō)
ἀπατεών (apateṓn)

Descendants

Greek: απάτη (apáti)
→ Translingual: Apate

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀπάτη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 113-4

“ἀπάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀπάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀπάτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀπάτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀπάτη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀπάτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
G539 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.
- artifice idem, page 42.
- catch idem, page 118.
- cheat idem, page 127.
- cheating idem, page 128.
- craft idem, page 181.
- deceit idem, page 200.
- dissimulation idem, page 239.
- double-dealing idem, page 248.
- duplicity idem, page 256.
- finesse idem, page 321.
- fraud idem, page 343.
- guile idem, page 378.
- hoax idem, page 402.
- hypocrisy idem, page 412.
- illusion idem, page 416.
- insincerity idem, page 445.
- ruse idem, page 727.
- snare idem, page 788.
- stratagem idem, page 823.
- trap idem, page 890.
- trick idem, page 894.
- trickery idem, page 894.
- wile idem, page 979.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀπάτη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 113-4

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