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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
δια- (dia-, “across, through”) + νόος (nóos, “mind”) + -ια (-ia, abstract noun forming suffix). Compare διανοέομαι (dianoéomai).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.á.noi̯.a/ → /ðiˈa.ny.a/ → /ðiˈa.ni.a/
Noun
δῐᾰ́νοιᾰ • (diánoia) f (genitive δῐᾰνοίᾱς); first declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
- intention, purpose
460 BCE – 420 BCE,
Herodotus,
Histories 1.46.2:
- μετὰ ὦν τὴν διάνοιαν ταύτην αὐτίκα ἀπεπειρᾶτο τῶν μαντείων τῶν τε ἐν Ἕλλησι καὶ τοῦ ἐν Λιβύῃ, διαπέμψας ἄλλους ἄλλῃ, τοὺς μὲν ἐς Δελφοὺς ἰέναι, τοὺς δὲ ἐς Ἄβας τὰς Φωκέων, τοὺς δὲ ἐς Δωδώνην
- metà ôn tḕn diánoian taútēn autíka apepeirâto tôn manteíōn tôn te en Héllēsi kaì toû en Libúēi, diapémpsas állous állēi, toùs mèn es Delphoùs iénai, toùs dè es Ábas tàs Phōkéōn, toùs dè es Dōdṓnēn
- process of thinking
360 BCE,
Plato,
The Sophist 263e:
- οὐκοῦν διάνοια μὲν καὶ λόγος ταὐτόν: πλὴν ὁ μὲν ἐντὸς τῆς ψυχῆς πρὸς αὑτὴν διάλογος ἄνευ φωνῆς γιγνόμενος τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ ἡμῖν ἐπωνομάσθη, διάνοια;
- oukoûn diánoia mèn kaì lógos tautón: plḕn ho mèn entòs tês psukhês pròs hautḕn diálogos áneu phōnês gignómenos toût’ autò hēmîn epōnomásthē, diánoia?
- capacity of thought: intelligence, understanding
380 BCE,
Plato,
The Republic 511d:
- διάνοιαν δὲ καλεῖν μοι δοκεῖς τὴν τῶν γεωμετρικῶν τε καὶ τὴν τῶν τοιούτων ἕξιν ἀλλ’ οὐ νοῦν, ὡς μεταξύ τι δόξης τε καὶ νοῦ τὴν διάνοιαν οὖσαν.
- diánoian dè kaleîn moi dokeîs tḕn tôn geōmetrikôn te kaì tḕn tôn toioútōn héxin all’ ou noûn, hōs metaxú ti dóxēs te kaì noû tḕn diánoian oûsan.
- You seem to call the habit of geometers and others like them understanding and not reason, as understanding is something intermediate between reason and opinion.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “διάνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διάνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διάνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bearing idem, page 67.
- comprehension idem, page 153.
- design idem, page 215.
- determination idem, page 219.
- drift idem, page 252.
- fancy idem, page 306.
- force idem, page 335.
- idea idem, page 413.
- imagination idem, page 416.
- import idem, page 422.
- intelligence idem, page 448.
- intention idem, page 449.
- meaning idem, page 520.
- mind idem, page 530.
- notion idem, page 562.
- plan idem, page 617.
- point idem, page 623.
- purport idem, page 659.
- purpose idem, page 659.
- resolve idem, page 702.
- scheme idem, page 739.
- sense idem, page 752.
- significance idem, page 775.
- spirit idem, page 802.
- tenor idem, page 862.
- thought idem, page 868.
- understanding idem, page 913.
- will idem, page 979.
- wit idem, page 983.
- διάνοια - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.