πορνεία

From πορνεύω (porneúō, “to prostitute, to whore”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, “-ia: forming abstract nouns”), from πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute, whore”) +‎ -εύω (-eúō, forming verbs), from the Proto-Indo-European root *perh₂- (“to sell, to provide for a fee”).

πορνείᾱ • (porneíā) f (genitive πορνείᾱς); first declension

1. prostitution, whoring (provision of sex for money)
2. fornication, unchastity
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 5:1
3. (figuratively) idolatry

   Synonym: εἰδωλολατρία (eidōlolatría)

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Hosea 4.11

• → Greek: πορνεία (porneía) (learned)

• “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πορνεία 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
• G4202 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.
  • fornication idem, page 339.
  • harlotry idem, page 386.
  • prostitution idem, page 653.
  • whoredom idem, page 978.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πορνεία (porneía).

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈni.a/
• Hyphenation: πορ‧νεί‧α

πορνεία • (porneía) f (uncountable)

1. prostitution

euphemistic expressions:

• αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα n (archaiótero epángelma, “oldest profession”)
• αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα του κόσμου n (archaiótero epángelma tou kósmou, “oldest profession in the world”)

• πορνείο n (porneío, “brothel”)

• and see: πόρνη f (pórni, “prostitute”)

• πορνεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el