πορνεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πορνεύω (porneúō, “to prostitute, to whore”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, “-ia: forming abstract nouns”), from πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute, whore”) +‎ -εύω (-eúō, forming verbs), from the Proto-Indo-European root *perh₂- (“to sell, to provide for a fee”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /por.něː.aː/ → /porˈni.a/ → /porˈni.a/

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

Noun

πορνείᾱ • (porneíā) f (genitive πορνείᾱς); first declension

1. prostitution, whoring (provision of sex for money)
2. fornication, unchastity
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 5:1
3. (figuratively) idolatry

   Synonym: εἰδωλολατρία (eidōlolatría)

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Hosea 4.11

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πορνείᾱ; τῆς πορνείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πορνείᾱ hē porneíā	τὼ πορνείᾱ tṑ porneíā	αἱ πορνεῖαι hai porneîai
Genitive	τῆς πορνείᾱς tês porneíās	τοῖν πορνείαιν toîn porneíain	τῶν πορνειῶν tôn porneiôn
Dative	τῇ πορνείᾳ tēî porneíāi	τοῖν πορνείαιν toîn porneíain	ταῖς πορνείαις taîs porneíais
Accusative	τὴν πορνείᾱν tḕn porneíān	τὼ πορνείᾱ tṑ porneíā	τᾱ̀ς πορνείᾱς tā̀s porneíās
Vocative	πορνείᾱ porneíā	πορνείᾱ porneíā	πορνεῖαι porneîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: πορνεία (porneía) (learned)

Further reading

• “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πορνεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• G4202 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fornication idem, page 339.
  • harlotry idem, page 386.
  • prostitution idem, page 653.
  • whoredom idem, page 978.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πορνεία (porneía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈni.a/
• Hyphenation: πορ‧νεί‧α

Noun

πορνεία • (porneía) f (uncountable)

1. prostitution

Declension

Declension of πορνεία

	singular
nominative	πορνεία (porneía)
genitive	πορνείας (porneías)
accusative	πορνεία (porneía)
vocative	πορνεία (porneía)

Synonyms

euphemistic expressions:

• αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα n (archaiótero epángelma, “oldest profession”)
• αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα του κόσμου n (archaiótero epángelma tou kósmou, “oldest profession in the world”)

Related terms

• πορνείο n (porneío, “brothel”)

• and see: πόρνη f (pórni, “prostitute”)

Further reading

• πορνεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el