ἄγνοια
See also: άγνοια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”) + -ιᾱ (-iā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ɡnoi̯.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡny.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣny.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣny.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣni.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ • (ắgnoiă) f (genitive ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς); first declension
- The state of not knowing or perceiving: ignorance, unawareness
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ hē ắgnoiă |
τὼ ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ tṑ ăgnoíā |
αἱ ᾰ̓́γνοιαι hai ắgnoiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς tês ăgnoíās |
τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοίαιν toîn ăgnoíain |
τῶν ᾰ̓γνοιῶν tôn ăgnoiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓γνοίᾳ tēî ăgnoíāi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοίαιν toîn ăgnoíain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓γνοίαις taîs ăgnoíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰν tḕn ắgnoiăn |
τὼ ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ tṑ ăgnoíā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς tā̀s ăgnoíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ ắgnoiă |
ᾰ̓γνοίᾱ ăgnoíā |
ᾰ̓́γνοιαι ắgnoiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- άγνοια f (ágnoia, “ignorance”)
References
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἄγνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G52 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.
- blindness idem, page 83.
- ignorance idem, page 414.
- unconsciousness idem, page 910.