ἀναχρονισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀναχρονίζομαι (anakhronízomai, “to be an anachronism”) +‎ -μός (-mós), from ἀνά (aná, “backwards”) + χρονίζω (khronízō, “to be located in time”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.na.kʰro.niz.mós/ → /a.na.xro.nizˈmos/ → /a.na.xro.nizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.na.kʰro.niz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.na.kʰro.nizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.na.xro.nizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.na.xro.nizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.na.xro.nizˈmos/

Noun

ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός • (anakhronismós) m (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. an anachronism
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 846
   1. an exchange of quantity of two syllables
      • Eustathius 1704.8

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός; τοῦ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός ho anakhronismós	τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμώ tṑ anakhronismṓ	οἱ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοί hoi anakhronismoí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῦ toû anakhronismoû	τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῖν toîn anakhronismoîn	τῶν ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμῶν tôn anakhronismôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμῷ tôi anakhronismôi	τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῖν toîn anakhronismoîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοῖς toîs anakhronismoîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμόν tòn anakhronismón	τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμώ tṑ anakhronismṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμούς toùs anakhronismoús
Vocative	ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμέ anakhronismé	ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμώ anakhronismṓ	ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμοί anakhronismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αναχρονισμός m (anachronismós, “anachronism”)

Further reading

• “ἀναχρονισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀναχρονισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀναχρονισμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀναχρονισμός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften