κακοποιία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰκοποιΐα (kakopoiḯa)

Etymology

From κᾰκοποιός (kakopoiós, “doing ill, mischievous, maleficient”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from κᾰκόποιέω (kakópoiéō, “I do evil”), from κᾰκός (kakós, “bad”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “I do”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.ko.poi̯.í.aː/ → /ka.ko.pyˈi.a/ → /ka.ko.piˈi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.poi̯.í.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.pyˈi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.pyˈi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.pyˈi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.ko.piˈi.a/

Noun

κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ • (kakopoiíā) f (genitive κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. ill-doing, evil-doing
2. (in the plural) injuries

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ hē kakopoiíā	τὼ κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakopoiíā	αἱ κᾰκοποιῐ́αι hai kakopoiíai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱς tês kakopoiíās	τοῖν κᾰκοποιῐ́αιν toîn kakopoiíain	τῶν κᾰκοποιῐῶν tôn kakopoiiôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾳ têi kakopoiíāi	τοῖν κᾰκοποιῐ́αιν toîn kakopoiíain	ταῖς κᾰκοποιῐ́αις taîs kakopoiíais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱν tḕn kakopoiíān	τὼ κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakopoiíā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kakopoiíās
Vocative	κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ kakopoiíā	κᾰκοποιῐ́ᾱ kakopoiíā	κᾰκοποιῐ́αι kakopoiíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• κᾰκοποίησῐς (kakopoíēsis)

Antonyms

• εὐεργεσῐ́αι (euergesíai)

References

• “κακοποιΐα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κακοποιία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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