ἀγνώς

Ancient Greek

From ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) +‎ γνωτ- (gnōt-, root of γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō, “to know”)). Compare ἄγνωτος (ágnōtos) and Latin īgnōtus.

ᾰ̓γνώς • (ăgnṓs) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓γνώς); third declension

in passive constructions:
1. (chiefly of persons) unknown
  - c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.79
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 677
  - 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1008
  - 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 14
  - 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137.2
  - 375 BCE, Plato, The Republic 375e
2. (of things) obscure, unintelligible
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1051
  - 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1001
3. obscure, ignoble
  - 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 18
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.12
  - (Can we find and add a quotation of Julianus Imperator to this entry?)
(in active constructions) ignorant
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 678
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.13
(active voice or passive voice) construed with the genitive
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.30
- 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.53.4
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 178a

Third declension of ᾰ̓γνώς; ᾰ̓γνώς (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ᾰ̓γνώς ăgnṓs		ᾰ̓γνώς ăgnṓs	ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte		ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte	ᾰ̓γνῶτες ăgnôtes		ᾰ̓γνῶτᾰ ăgnôtă
Genitive	ᾰ̓γνῶτος ăgnôtos		ᾰ̓γνῶτος ăgnôtos	ᾰ̓γνώτοιν ăgnṓtoin		ᾰ̓γνώτοιν ăgnṓtoin	ᾰ̓γνώτων ăgnṓtōn		ᾰ̓γνώτων ăgnṓtōn
Dative	ᾰ̓γνῶτῐ ăgnôtĭ		ᾰ̓γνῶτῐ ăgnôtĭ	ᾰ̓γνώτοιν ăgnṓtoin		ᾰ̓γνώτοιν ăgnṓtoin	ᾰ̓γνῶσῐ ᾰ̓γνῶσῐν ăgnôsĭ(n)		ᾰ̓γνῶσῐ ᾰ̓γνῶσῐν ăgnôsĭ(n)
Accusative	ᾰ̓γνῶτᾰ ăgnôtă		ᾰ̓γνώς ăgnṓs	ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte		ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte	ᾰ̓γνῶτᾰς ăgnôtăs		ᾰ̓γνῶτᾰ ăgnôtă
Vocative	ᾰ̓γνώς ăgnṓs		ᾰ̓γνώς ăgnṓs	ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte		ᾰ̓γνῶτε ăgnôte	ᾰ̓γνῶτες ăgnôtes		ᾰ̓γνῶτᾰ ăgnôtă
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ᾰ̓γνώτως ăgnṓtōs			—			—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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“ἀγνώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀγνώς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀγνώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀγνώς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀγνώς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
“ἀγνώς”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hypothetical idem, page 412.
- ignorant idem, page 414.
- stranger idem, page 823.
- unacquainted idem, page 906.
- unknown idem, page 923.