φυσιογνωμία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φυσιογνωμίη (phusiognōmíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From φύσις (phúsis) +‎ γνώμη (gnṓmē) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnɔː.mí.aː/ → /ɸy.si.o.ɣnoˈmi.a/ → /fi.si.o.ɣnoˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnɔː.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnoˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸy.si.o.ɣnoˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fy.si.o.ɣnoˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.si.o.ɣnoˈmi.a/

Noun

φῠσῐογνωμίᾱ • (phusiognōmíā) f (genitive φῠσῐογνωμίᾱς); first declension

1. (rare) Synonym of φυσιολογίᾱ (phusiologíā)

Declension

First declension of ἡ φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱ hē phusiognōmíā
Genitive	τῆς φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱς tês phusiognōmíās
Dative	τῇ φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾳ têi phusiognōmíāi
Accusative	τὴν φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱν tḕn phusiognōmíān
Vocative	φῠσῐογνωμῐ́ᾱ phusiognōmíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: physiognōmia, physonōmia
  • Catalan: fisonomia
  • → Dutch: fysiognomie
  • Old French: fisonomie, phisonomie
    • → Middle English: phisonomie, phisonomy, phisinomie, fisenamie, fisenamy, phisnomie, phisnomy, fisnomie, fisnomy, fisnamie, fisnamy, vesnamy
      • English: physiognomy, physiognomonics, physiognomist, physiognomize
    • French: physionomie
      • → Polish: fizjonomia, fizjognomia
        • → Yiddish: פֿיזיאָנאָמיע (fizyonomye)
      • → Romanian: fizionomie
      • → Turkish: fizyonomi
  • Italian: fisionomia
  • Portuguese: fisionomia
  • Spanish: fisonomía
  • → Swedish: fysionomi

Further reading

• “φυσιογνωμία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “φυσιογνωμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press