ἀφωνία
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ἄφωνος (áphōnos, “voiceless”) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pʰɔː.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.pʰoˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɸoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.foˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.foˈni.a/
Noun
[edit]ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ • (aphōníā) f (genitive ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ hē aphōníā |
τὼ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ aphōníā |
αἱ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αι hai aphōníai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς tês aphōníās |
τοῖν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αιν toîn aphōníain |
τῶν ᾰ̓φωνῐῶν tôn aphōniôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾳ têi aphōníāi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αιν toîn aphōníain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αις taîs aphōníais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn aphōníān |
τὼ ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ aphōníā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aphōníās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ aphōníā |
ᾰ̓φωνῐ́ᾱ aphōníā |
ᾰ̓φωνῐ́αι aphōníai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “ἀφωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀφωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀφωνία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dumbness idem, page 256.
- speechlessness idem, page 800.