ἀπιστία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓́πῐστος (ápistos, “mistrustful; unreliable”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pis.tí.aː/ → /a.pisˈti.a/ → /a.pisˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pis.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.pisˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.pisˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.pisˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.pisˈti.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ • (apistíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. unbelief, distrust, lack of confidence, doubt

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ hē apistíā	τὼ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ tṑ apistíā	αἱ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́αι hai apistíai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱς tês apistíās	τοῖν ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́αιν toîn apistíain	τῶν ᾰ̓πῐστῐῶν tôn apistiôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾳ têi apistíāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́αιν toîn apistíain	ταῖς ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́αις taîs apistíais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱν tḕn apistíān	τὼ ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ tṑ apistíā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱς tā̀s apistíās
Vocative	ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ apistíā	ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́ᾱ apistíā	ᾰ̓πῐστῐ́αι apistíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: απιστία (apistía)

Further reading

• “ἀπιστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀπιστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπιστία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)