μισανθρωπία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσάνθρωπος (mīsánthrōpos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miː.san.tʰrɔː.pí.aː/ → /mi.san.θroˈpi.a/ → /mi.san.θroˈpi.a/

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

Noun

μῑσανθρωπίᾱ • (mīsanthrōpíā) f (genitive μῑσανθρωπίᾱς); first declension

1. misanthropy, hatred of humankind

Declension

First declension of ἡ μῑσανθρωπίᾱ; τῆς μῑσανθρωπίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ μῑσανθρωπίᾱ hē mīsanthrōpíā
Genitive	τῆς μῑσανθρωπίᾱς tês mīsanthrōpíās
Dative	τῇ μῑσανθρωπίᾳ têi mīsanthrōpíāi
Accusative	τὴν μῑσανθρωπίᾱν tḕn mīsanthrōpíān
Vocative	μῑσανθρωπίᾱ mīsanthrōpíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: mizantropi
• → Armenian: միզանտրոպիա (mizantropia)
• → Asturian: misantropía
• → Basque: misantropia
• → Belarusian: мізантро́пія (mizantrópija)
• → Bulgarian: мизантро́пия (mizantrópija)
• → Catalan: misantropia
• → Czech: misantropie
• → Danish: misantropi
• → Dutch: misantropie
• → English: misanthropy
• → Esperanto: mizantropio
• → Estonian: misantroopia
• → Finnish: misantropia
• → French: misanthropie
• → Galician: misantropía
• → Georgian: მიზანთროპია (mizantroṗia)
• → German: Misanthropie
• Greek: μισανθρωπία (misanthropía)
• → Hebrew: מִיזַנְתְּרוֹפְּיָה (mizantrópya)
• → Ido: mizantropeso
• → Italian: misantropia
• → Latin: mīsanthrōpia
• → Latvian: mizantropija
• → Lithuanian: mizantropija
• → Macedonian: мизантро́пија (mizantrópija)
• → Mingrelian: მიზანთროპი (mizantroṗi)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: misantropi
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: misantropi
• → Occitan: misantropia
• → Polish: mizantropia
• → Portuguese: misantropia
• → Romanian: mizantropie
• → Russian: мизантро́пия (mizantrópija)
• → Samogitian: mėzantruopėjė
• → Serbo-Croatian: mizantròpija
• → Slovak: mizantropia
• → Slovene: mizantropíja
• → Spanish: misantropía
• → Swedish: misantropi
• → Turkish: mizantropi
• → Ukrainian: мізантро́пія (mizantrópija)
• → Yiddish: מיזאַנטראָפּיע (mizantropye)

Further reading

• μισανθρωπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μισανθρωπία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “μισανθρωπία”, 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.
  • inhumanity idem, page 441.
  • misanthropy idem, page 532.