μισάνθρωπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) +‎ ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human being”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miː.sán.tʰrɔː.pos/ → /miˈsan.θro.pos/ → /miˈsan.θro.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /miː.sán.tʰrɔː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /miˈsan.tʰro.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈsan.θro.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈsan.θro.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈsan.θro.pos/

Adjective

μῑσάνθρωπος • (mīsánthrōpos) m or f (neuter μῑσάνθρωπον); second declension

1. misanthropic

Declension

Second declension of μῑσᾰ́νθρωπος; μῑσᾰ́νθρωπον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		μῑσᾰ́νθρωπος mīsánthrōpos	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπον mīsánthrōpon		μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō	μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō		μῑσᾰ́νθρωποι mīsánthrōpoi	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπᾰ mīsánthrōpa
Genitive		μῑσᾰνθρώπου mīsanthrṓpou	μῑσᾰνθρώπου mīsanthrṓpou		μῑσᾰνθρώποιν mīsanthrṓpoin	μῑσᾰνθρώποιν mīsanthrṓpoin		μῑσᾰνθρώπων mīsanthrṓpōn	μῑσᾰνθρώπων mīsanthrṓpōn
Dative		μῑσᾰνθρώπῳ mīsanthrṓpōi	μῑσᾰνθρώπῳ mīsanthrṓpōi		μῑσᾰνθρώποιν mīsanthrṓpoin	μῑσᾰνθρώποιν mīsanthrṓpoin		μῑσᾰνθρώποις mīsanthrṓpois	μῑσᾰνθρώποις mīsanthrṓpois
Accusative		μῑσᾰ́νθρωπον mīsánthrōpon	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπον mīsánthrōpon		μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō	μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō		μῑσᾰνθρώπους mīsanthrṓpous	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπᾰ mīsánthrōpa
Vocative		μῑσᾰ́νθρωπε mīsánthrōpe	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπον mīsánthrōpon		μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō	μῑσᾰνθρώπω mīsanthrṓpō		μῑσᾰ́νθρωποι mīsánthrōpoi	μῑσᾰ́νθρωπᾰ mīsánthrōpa
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		μῑσᾰνθρώπως mīsanthrṓpōs			μῑσᾰνθρωπότερος mīsanthrōpóteros			μῑσᾰνθρωπότᾰτος mīsanthrōpótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῑσανθρωπίᾱ (mīsanthrōpíā)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Basque: misantropo
• → Belarusian: мізантро́п (mizantróp)
• → Bulgarian: мизантро́п (mizantróp)
• → Catalan: misantrop
• → Czech: mizantrop
• → Danish: misantrop
• → Dutch: misantroop
• → English: misanthrope
• → Esperanto: mizantropo
• → Finnish: misantrooppi
• → French: misanthrope
• → Georgian: მიზანთროპი (mizantroṗi)
• → German: Misanthrop
• Greek: μισάνθρωπος (misánthropos)
• → Hungarian: mizantróp
• → Italian: misantropo
• → Latvian: mizantrops
• → Polish: mizantrop
• → Portuguese: misantropo
• → Romanian: mizantrop
• → Russian: мизантро́п (mizantróp)
• → Serbo-Croatian: mizàntrop
• → Slovak: mizantrop
• → Spanish: misántropo
• → Swedish: misantrop
• → Ukrainian: мізантро́п (mizantróp)

Further reading

• μισάνθρωπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μισάνθρωπος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “μισάνθρωπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • inhuman idem, page 441.
  • misanthrope idem, page 532.
  • misanthropic idem, page 532.
  • unnamed idem, page 926.