ἀγρυπνία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄγρυπνος (ágrupnos, “sleepless, wakeful”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡry.pní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.ɡryˈpni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɣryˈpni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.ɣryˈpni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.ɣriˈpni.a/
Noun
ἀγρυπνίᾱ • (agrupníā) f (genitive ἀγρυπνίᾱς); first declension
- sleeplessness, watchfulness
- a time of watching
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 têi 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 | ||||||||||
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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 (2006–2024)
- 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.