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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἰρωνεύομαι (eirōneúomai, “to feign ignorance”, from εἴρων) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eː.rɔː.něː.aː/ → /i.roˈni.a/ → /i.roˈni.a/
Noun
εἰρωνείᾱ • (eirōneíā) f (genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension
- hypocrisy, deception, especially a feigned ignorance
- An assumed appearance, pretext
- The act of sealioning.
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰρωνεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- εἰρωνεία 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.