ἄνοια

See also: άνοια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄνοος (ánoos, “silly, witless”) +‎ -ῐᾱ (-iā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.noi̯.aː/ → /ˈa.ny.a/ → /ˈa.ni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.noi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ny.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ny.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ny.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.a/

Noun

ἄνοιᾱ • (ánoiā) f (genitive ἀνοίᾱς); first declension

1. lack of understanding, folly

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀνοίᾱ; τῆς ἀνοίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνοίᾱ hē anoíā	τὼ ἀνοίᾱ tṑ anoíā	αἱ ἄνοιαι hai ánoiai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνοίᾱς tês anoíās	τοῖν ἀνοίαιν toîn anoíain	τῶν ἀνοιῶν tôn anoiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνοίᾳ têi anoíāi	τοῖν ἀνοίαιν toîn anoíain	ταῖς ἀνοίαις taîs anoíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνοίᾱν tḕn anoíān	τὼ ἀνοίᾱ tṑ anoíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνοίᾱς tā̀s anoíās
Vocative	ἀνοίᾱ anoíā	ἀνοίᾱ anoíā	ἄνοιαι ánoiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: άνοια (ánoia)

Further reading

• “ἄνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G454 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.
  • absurdity idem, page 4.
  • folly idem, page 332.
  • giddiness idem, page 359.
  • idiocy idem, page 413.
  • imbecility idem, page 417.
  • lunacy idem, page 504.
  • senselessness idem, page 753.
  • silliness idem, page 776.
  • stupidity idem, page 830.
  • unwisdom idem, page 937.
  • vanity idem, page 943.
  • witlessness idem, page 985.