ἄγνωστος
See also: άγνωστος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō, “to know”) + -τος (-tos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ɡnɔːs.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡnos.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣnos.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣnos.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣnos.tos/
Adjective
ᾰ̓́γνωστος • (ắgnōstos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́γνωστον); second declension
- unknown; unheard of; forgotten
- unknowable
- unintelligible
- not knowing; ignorant
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ᾰ̓́γνωστος ắgnōstos |
ᾰ̓́γνωστον ắgnōston |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓́γνωστοι ắgnōstoi |
ᾰ̓́γνωστᾰ ắgnōstă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ᾰ̓γνώστου ăgnṓstou |
ᾰ̓γνώστου ăgnṓstou |
ᾰ̓γνώστοιν ăgnṓstoin |
ᾰ̓γνώστοιν ăgnṓstoin |
ᾰ̓γνώστων ăgnṓstōn |
ᾰ̓γνώστων ăgnṓstōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ᾰ̓γνώστῳ ăgnṓstōi |
ᾰ̓γνώστῳ ăgnṓstōi |
ᾰ̓γνώστοιν ăgnṓstoin |
ᾰ̓γνώστοιν ăgnṓstoin |
ᾰ̓γνώστοις ăgnṓstois |
ᾰ̓γνώστοις ăgnṓstois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ᾰ̓́γνωστον ắgnōston |
ᾰ̓́γνωστον ắgnōston |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓γνώστους ăgnṓstous |
ᾰ̓́γνωστᾰ ắgnōstă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́γνωστε ắgnōste |
ᾰ̓́γνωστον ắgnōston |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓γνώστω ăgnṓstō |
ᾰ̓́γνωστοι ắgnōstoi |
ᾰ̓́γνωστᾰ ắgnōstă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ᾰ̓γνώστως ăgnṓstōs |
ᾰ̓γνωστότερος ăgnōstóteros |
ᾰ̓γνωστότᾰτος ăgnōstótătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άγνωστος (ágnostos)
Further reading
- “ἄγνωστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγνωστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄγνωστος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄγνωστος 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
- ἄγνωστος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄγνωστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- “ἄγνωστος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G57 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.
- unknowable idem, page 923.