ἐντροπία
See also: εντροπία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐν- (en-) + -τροπίᾱ (-tropíā), the latter from τρέπω (trépō, “to turn”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /en.tro.pí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /en.droˈpi.a/
Noun
ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ • (entropĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- a turning towards
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ hē entropĭ́ā |
τὼ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ tṑ entropĭ́ā |
αἱ ἐντροπῐ́αι hai entropĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς tês entropĭ́ās |
τοῖν ἐντροπῐ́αιν toîn entropĭ́ain |
τῶν ἐντροπῐῶν tôn entropĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐντροπῐ́ᾳ tēî entropĭ́āi |
τοῖν ἐντροπῐ́αιν toîn entropĭ́ain |
ταῖς ἐντροπῐ́αις taîs entropĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐντροπῐ́ᾱν tḕn entropĭ́ān |
τὼ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ tṑ entropĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς tā̀s entropĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ entropĭ́ā |
ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ entropĭ́ā |
ἐντροπῐ́αι entropĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐντροπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐντροπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐντροπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐντροπία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἐντροπία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011