ἀγνωσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀγνώς (agnṓs, “unknown, ignorant”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡnɔː.sí.aː/ → /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/ → /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡnɔː.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡnoˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/

Noun

ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ • (agnōsíā) f (genitive ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. ignorance
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 9
   • 150 BCE – 50 BCE, Demetrius Lacon, Herculaneum papyri 1055.15
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1204
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 205
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 267B
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 13.1
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:34
2. obscurity
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 238D

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ hē agnōsíā	τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsíā	αἱ ἀγνωσῐ́αι hai agnōsíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tês agnōsíās	τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsíain	τῶν ἀγνωσῐῶν tôn agnōsiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾳ têi agnōsíāi	τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsíain	ταῖς ἀγνωσῐ́αις taîs agnōsíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱν tḕn agnōsíān	τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s agnōsíās
Vocative	ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsíā	ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsíā	ἀγνωσῐ́αι agnōsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: agnòsia
• → English: agnosia
• → German: Agnosie

References

• “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγνωσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγνωσία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G56 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.
  • ignorance idem, page 414.