μισανδρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσέω (mīséō, “to hate”) +‎ ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miː.san.drí.aː/ → /mi.sanˈdri.a/ → /mi.sanˈdri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /miː.san.drí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/

Noun

μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ • (mīsandríā) f (genitive μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. hatred of men, misandry

   425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 228

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ hē mīsandríā	τὼ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsandríā	αἱ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αι hai mīsandríai
Genitive	τῆς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς tês mīsandríās	τοῖν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αιν toîn mīsandríain	τῶν μῑσᾰνδρῐῶν tôn mīsandriôn
Dative	τῇ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾳ têi mīsandríāi	τοῖν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αιν toîn mīsandríain	ταῖς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αις taîs mīsandríais
Accusative	τὴν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱν tḕn mīsandríān	τὼ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsandríā	τᾱ̀ς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mīsandríās
Vocative	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ mīsandríā	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ mīsandríā	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αι mīsandríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μισανδρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μισανδρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette