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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δειλός (deilós, “craven”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deː.lí.aː/ → /ðiˈli.a/ → /ðiˈli.a/
Noun
δειλῐ́ᾱ • (deilíā) f (genitive δειλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (uncountable) cowardice
- Antonyms: ᾰ̓νδρείᾱ (andreíā), θρασύτης (thrasútēs)
- (uncountable) timidity
Declension
Further reading
- “δειλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δειλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δειλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- δειλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “δειλία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011