φυσιογνωμονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φυσιογνωμονίη (phusiognōmoníē) — Ionic

Etymology

From φυσιογνώμων (phusiognṓmōn, “judging of a person's character by their features”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnɔː.mo.ní.aː/ → /ɸy.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/ → /fi.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/

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

Noun

φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ • (phusiognōmoníā) f (genitive φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς); first declension

1. the practice of judging a person's character by their features

Declension

First declension of ἡ φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ; τῆς φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ hē phusiognōmoníā
Genitive	τῆς φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς tês phusiognōmoníās
Dative	τῇ φῠσῐογνωμονίᾳ têi phusiognōmoníāi
Accusative	τὴν φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱν tḕn phusiognōmoníān
Vocative	φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ phusiognōmoníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: phyiognomonie

Further reading

• φυσιογνωμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φυσιογνωμονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “φυσιογνωμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press