ἀφροσύνη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀφροσύ̆νᾰ (aphrosú̆nă) — Doric
Etymology
From ἄφρων (áphrōn) + -σύνη (-súnē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pʰro.sý.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.pʰroˈsy.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɸroˈsy.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.froˈsy.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.froˈsi.ni/
Noun
ἀφροσύνη • (aphrosúnē) f (genitive ̆ἀφροσύνης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀφροσύνη hē aphrosúnē |
τὼ ἀφροσύνᾱ tṑ aphrosúnā |
αἱ ἀφροσύναι hai aphrosúnai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀφροσύνης tês aphrosúnēs |
τοῖν ἀφροσύναιν toîn aphrosúnain |
τῶν ἀφροσυνῶν tôn aphrosunôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀφροσύνῃ tēî aphrosúnēi |
τοῖν ἀφροσύναιν toîn aphrosúnain |
ταῖς ἀφροσύναις taîs aphrosúnais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀφροσύνην tḕn aphrosúnēn |
τὼ ἀφροσύνᾱ tṑ aphrosúnā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀφροσύνᾱς tā̀s aphrosúnās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀφροσύνη aphrosúnē |
ἀφροσύνᾱ aphrosúnā |
ἀφροσύναι aphrosúnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- > Greek: αφροσύνη (afrosýni) (inherited)
Further reading
- “ἀφροσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀφροσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀφροσύνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀφροσύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀφροσύνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀφροσύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- G877 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.
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