ἀγρυπνία

See also: αγρυπνία and αγρύπνια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄγρυπνος (ágrupnos, “sleepless, wakeful”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡry.pní.aː/ → /a.ɣryˈpni.a/ → /a.ɣriˈpni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡry.pní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡryˈpni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣryˈpni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣryˈpni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣriˈpni.a/

Noun

ἀγρυπνίᾱ • (agrupníā) f (genitive ἀγρυπνίᾱς); first declension

1. sleeplessness, watchfulness
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 2.3
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 43B
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Regimen in Acute Diseases 42
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.129
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 27
   • 375 BCE, Plato, The Republic 460D
2. a time of watching
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 368B
   • 482 CE – 565 CE, Justinian, New Constitutions 13

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀγρυπνίᾱ; τῆς ἀγρυπνίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγρυπνίᾱ hē agrupníā	τὼ ἀγρυπνίᾱ tṑ agrupníā	αἱ ἀγρυπνίαι hai agrupníai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγρυπνίᾱς tês agrupníās	τοῖν ἀγρυπνίαιν toîn agrupníain	τῶν ἀγρυπνιῶν tôn agrupniôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγρυπνίᾳ tēî agrupníāi	τοῖν ἀγρυπνίαιν toîn agrupníain	ταῖς ἀγρυπνίαις taîs agrupníais
Accusative	τὴν ἀγρυπνίᾱν tḕn agrupníān	τὼ ἀγρυπνίᾱ tṑ agrupníā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγρυπνίᾱς tā̀s agrupníās
Vocative	ἀγρυπνίᾱ agrupníā	ἀγρυπνίᾱ agrupníā	ἀγρυπνίαι agrupníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: agrypnia
• → Translingual: Agrypnia

References

• “ἀγρυπνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγρυπνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀγρυπνία” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἀγρυπνία” in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G70 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.
  • restlessness idem, page 705.
  • sleeplessness idem, page 783.
  • vigilance idem, page 951.
  • wakefulness idem, page 960.
  • watchfulness idem, page 967.