ἀναρχία

See also: αναρχία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄναρχος ‎(ánarkhos, “without leader”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA: /a.nar.kʰí.a/ → /a.nar.ˈxi.a/ → /a.nar.ˈçi.a/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /a.nar.kʰí.a/ ambiguous vowel α at 3, ambiguous vowel ί at 6, ambiguous vowel α at 7
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /a.nar.ˈkʰi.a/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /a.nar.ˈxi.a/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /a.nar.ˈçi.a/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /a.nar.ˈçi.a/

Noun

ἀναρχία • ‎(anarkhía) f ‎(genitive ἀναρχίᾱς); first declension

1. lack of a leader
2. lawlessness, anarchy

Inflection

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Descendants

• Bulgarian: анархия ‎(anárhija)
• Catalan: anarquia
• English: anarchy
• Danish: anarki
• French: anarchie
• German: Anarchie
• Greek: αναρχία ‎(anarchía)

• Italian: anarchia
• Latin: anarchia
• Polish: anarchia
• Portuguese: anarquia
• Russian: анархия ‎(anarxija)
• Spanish: anarquía

References

• ἀναρχία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀναρχία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀναρχία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀναρχία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anarchy idem, page 28.
  • lawlessness idem, page 480.
  • licence idem, page 488.
  • licentiousness idem, page 489.
  • misrule idem, page 535.
  • profligacy idem, page 653.
  • unruliness idem, page 930.