ἀσυμμετρία
See also: ασυμμετρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + συμμετρίᾱ (summetríā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.sym.me.trí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.sym.meˈtri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.sym.meˈtri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.sym.meˈtri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.si.meˈtri.a/
Noun
ἀσυμμετρίᾱ • (asummetríā) f (genitive ἀσυμμετρίᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ hē ăsŭmmetrĭ́ā |
τὼ ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăsŭmmetrĭ́ā |
αἱ ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́αι hai ăsŭmmetrĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱς tês ăsŭmmetrĭ́ās |
τοῖν ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́αιν toîn ăsŭmmetrĭ́ain |
τῶν ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐῶν tôn ăsŭmmetrĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾳ tēî ăsŭmmetrĭ́āi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́αιν toîn ăsŭmmetrĭ́ain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́αις taîs ăsŭmmetrĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱν tḕn ăsŭmmetrĭ́ān |
τὼ ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăsŭmmetrĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ăsŭmmetrĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ ăsŭmmetrĭ́ā |
ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ ăsŭmmetrĭ́ā |
ᾰ̓σῠμμετρῐ́αι ăsŭmmetrĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: ασυμμετρία (asymmetría)
- → Asturian: asimetría
- → Belarusian: асіме́трыя (asimjétryja)
- → Catalan: asimetria
- → Czech: asymetrie
- → English: asymmetry
- → Finnish: asymmetria
- → French: asymétrie
- → Dutch: asymmetrie
- → Indonesian: asimetri
- → Dutch: asymmetrie
- → Galician: asimetría
- → Georgian: ასიმეტრია (asimeṭria)
- → German: Asymmetrie
- → Irish: aisiméadracht
- → Italian: asimmetria
- → Japanese: アシンメトリー (ashinmetorī)
- → Latvian: asimetríja
- → Norwegian Bokmål: asymmetri
- → Polish: asymetria
- → Portuguese: assimetria
- → Romanian: asimetrie
- → Russian: асимметри́я (asimmetríja)
- → Serbo-Croatian: asimètrija
- → Slovene: àsimetríja
- → Spanish: asimetría
- → Swedish: asymmetri
- → Turkish: asimetri
- → Ukrainian: асиметрі́я (asymetríja)
Further reading
- ἀσυμμετρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσυμμετρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀσυμμετρία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀσυμμετρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press