ἀθῷος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-”) + θωή (thōḗ, “penalty”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.tʰɔ̂ːi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈtʰo.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈθo.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈθo.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈθo.os/
Adjective
ἀθῷος • (athōîos) m or f (neuter ἀθῷον); second declension
- unpunished, scot-free, unharmed by
- not deserving punishment, guiltless, innocent
- causing no harm, harmless
For quotations using this term, see Citations:ἀθῷος.
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ᾰ̓θῷος ăthōîos |
ᾰ̓θῷον ăthōîon |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῷοι ăthōîoi |
ᾰ̓θῷᾰ ăthōîă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ᾰ̓θῴου ăthōíou |
ᾰ̓θῴου ăthōíou |
ᾰ̓θῴοιν ăthōíoin |
ᾰ̓θῴοιν ăthōíoin |
ᾰ̓θῴων ăthōíōn |
ᾰ̓θῴων ăthōíōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ᾰ̓θῴῳ ăthōíōi |
ᾰ̓θῴῳ ăthōíōi |
ᾰ̓θῴοιν ăthōíoin |
ᾰ̓θῴοιν ăthōíoin |
ᾰ̓θῴοις ăthōíois |
ᾰ̓θῴοις ăthōíois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ᾰ̓θῷον ăthōîon |
ᾰ̓θῷον ăthōîon |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῴους ăthōíous |
ᾰ̓θῷᾰ ăthōîă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓θῷε ăthōîe |
ᾰ̓θῷον ăthōîon |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῴω ăthōíō |
ᾰ̓θῷοι ăthōîoi |
ᾰ̓θῷᾰ ăthōîă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ᾰ̓θῴως ăthōíōs |
ᾰ̓θῳότερος ăthōióteros |
ᾰ̓θῳότᾰτος ăthōiótătos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Descendants
- Greek: αθώος (athóos)
Further reading
Further reading
- ἀθῷος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀθῷος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- ἀθῷος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀθῷος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀθῷος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- G121 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- guiltless idem, page 379.
- impunity idem, page 425.
- innocent idem, page 442.
- intact idem, page 448.
- inviolate idem, page 458.
- scathless idem, page 738.
- scot-free idem, page 741.
- unashamed idem, page 907.
- unharmed idem, page 920.
- unhurt idem, page 921.
- uninjured idem, page 922.
- unoffending idem, page 926.
- unpunished idem, page 928.
- unscathed idem, page 931.
- untouched idem, page 935.