ἀγνωσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀγνώς (agnṓs, “unknown, ignorant”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡnɔː.sí.aː/ → /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/ → /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡnɔː.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡnoˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnoˈsi.a/

Noun

ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ • (agnōsĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. ignorance
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Ancient Medicine 9
   • 150 BCE – 50 BCE, Demetrius Lacon, Herculaneum papyri 1055.15
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1204
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 205
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 267B
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 13.1
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:34
2. obscurity
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 238D

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ hē agnōsĭ́ā	τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsĭ́ā	αἱ ἀγνωσῐ́αι hai agnōsĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tês agnōsĭ́ās	τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsĭ́ain	τῶν ἀγνωσῐῶν tôn agnōsĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾳ têi agnōsĭ́āi	τοῖν ἀγνωσῐ́αιν toîn agnōsĭ́ain	ταῖς ἀγνωσῐ́αις taîs agnōsĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱν tḕn agnōsĭ́ān	τὼ ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ tṑ agnōsĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s agnōsĭ́ās
Vocative	ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsĭ́ā	ἀγνωσῐ́ᾱ agnōsĭ́ā	ἀγνωσῐ́αι agnōsĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: agnòsia
• → English: agnosia
• → German: Agnosie

References

• “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγνωσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγνωσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγνωσία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G56 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.
  • ignorance idem, page 414.