ἀνθρώπινος

See also: ανθρώπινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human being”) +‎ -ῐνος (-inos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tʰrɔ̌ː.pi.nos/ → /anˈθro.pi.nos/ → /anˈθro.pi.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tʰrɔ̌ː.pi.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈtʰro.pi.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈθro.pi.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈθro.pi.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈθro.pi.nos/

Adjective

ἀνθρώπῐνος • (anthrṓpinos) m (feminine ἀνθρωπῐ́νη, neuter ἀνθρώπῐνον); first/second declension

1. human
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 688c–d:

     σπουδάζοντα δ’ εἴ με τιθέναι βούλεσθε, τίθετε· πάνυ γὰρ οὖν προσδοκῶ νῦν ὑμᾶς εὑρήσειν, τῷ λόγῳ ἑπομένους ὃν ὀλίγον ἔμπροσθε προυθέμεθα, τῆς τῶν βασιλέων τε φθορᾶς καὶ ὅλου τοῦ διανοήματος οὐ δειλίαν οὖσαν τὴν αἰτίαν, οὐδ’ ὅτι τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἠπίσταντο ἄρχοντές τε καὶ οὓς προσῆκεν ἄρχεσθαι, τῇ λοιπῇ δὲ πάσῃ κακίᾳ διεφθαρμένα, καὶ μάλιστα τῇ περὶ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων ἀμαθίᾳ.

     spoudázonta d’ eí me tithénai boúlesthe, títhete; pánu gàr oûn prosdokô nûn humâs heurḗsein, tôi lógōi hepoménous hòn olígon émprosthe prouthémetha, tês tôn basiléōn te phthorâs kaì hólou toû dianoḗmatos ou deilían oûsan tḕn aitían, oud’ hóti tà perì tòn pólemon ouk ēpístanto árkhontés te kaì hoùs prosêken árkhesthai, têi loipêi dè pásēi kakíāi diephtharména, kaì málista têi perì tà mégista tôn anthrōpínōn pragmátōn amathíāi.

     • 1967–8 translation by Robert Gregg Bury^[1]

       For I certainly expect that, as you follow the argument recently propounded, you will now discover that the cause of the ruin of those kingdoms, and of their whole design, was not cowardice or ignorance of warfare on the part either of the rulers or of those who should have been their subjects; but that what ruined them was badness of all other kinds, and especially ignorance concerning the greatest of human interests.

Declension

First and second declension of ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνος; ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νη; ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνος anthrṓpinos	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νη anthrōpínē	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνον anthrṓpinon		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νᾱ anthrōpínā	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō		ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνοι anthrṓpinoi	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐναι anthrṓpinai	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνᾰ anthrṓpina
Genitive		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νου anthrōpínou	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νης anthrōpínēs	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νου anthrōpínou		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοιν anthrōpínoin	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́ναιν anthrōpínain	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοιν anthrōpínoin		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νων anthrōpínōn	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νων anthrōpínōn	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νων anthrōpínōn
Dative		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νῳ anthrōpínōi	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νῃ anthrōpínēi	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νῳ anthrōpínōi		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοιν anthrōpínoin	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́ναιν anthrōpínain	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοιν anthrōpínoin		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοις anthrōpínois	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́ναις anthrōpínais	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νοις anthrōpínois
Accusative		ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνον anthrṓpinon	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νην anthrōpínēn	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνον anthrṓpinon		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νᾱ anthrōpínā	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νους anthrōpínous	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νᾱς anthrōpínās	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνᾰ anthrṓpina
Vocative		ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνε anthrṓpine	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νη anthrōpínē	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνον anthrṓpinon		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νᾱ anthrōpínā	ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νω anthrōpínō		ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνοι anthrṓpinoi	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐναι anthrṓpinai	ᾰ̓νθρώπῐνᾰ anthrṓpina
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ᾰ̓νθρωπῐ́νως anthrōpínōs				ᾰ̓νθρωπῐνώτερος anthrōpinṓteros				ᾰ̓νθρωπῐνώτᾰτος anthrōpinṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: ανθρώπινος (anthrópinos, “human”)

  ⇒ ανθρωπινός (anthropinós, “humane”)

Further reading

• “ἀνθρώπινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • earthly idem, page 259.
  • human idem, page 409.
  • mundane idem, page 546.
  • terrestrial idem, page 863.
  • worldly idem, page 990.