ἀπάθεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “without feeling or suffering”) + -εια (-eia)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pá.tʰeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈpa.tʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈpa.θi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈpa.θi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈpa.θi.a/
Noun
ἀπᾰ́θεια • (apátheia) f (genitive ἀπᾰθείᾱς); first declension
- want of sensation, impassibility
- (of persons) insensibility, apathy
- (among the Stoics) calmness, dispassionateness
- absence of suffering or pain
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀπάθειᾰ hē apátheia |
αἱ ἀπάθειαι hai apátheiai | |||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀπαθείᾱς tês apatheíās |
τῶν ἀπαθειῶν tôn apatheiôn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀπαθείᾳ têi apatheíāi |
ταῖς ἀπαθείαις taîs apatheíais | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀπάθειᾰν tḕn apátheian |
τᾱ̀ς ἀπαθείᾱς tā̀s apatheíās | |||||||||||
Vocative | ἀπάθειᾰ apátheia |
ἀπάθειαι apátheiai | |||||||||||
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Antonyms
- (want of sensation): πάθος (páthos)
Descendants
- Greek: απάθεια (apátheia)
- Latin: apathīa (see there for further descendants)
- Russian: апа́тия f (apátija)
Further reading
- “ἀπάθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀπάθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀπάθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀπάθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)