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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φυσιογνώμων (phusiognṓmōn, “judging of a person's character by their features”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnɔː.mo.ní.aː/ → /ɸy.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/ → /fi.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/
Noun
φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ • (phusiognōmoníā) f (genitive φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς); first declension
- the practice of judging a person's character by their features
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- φυσιογνωμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “φυσιογνωμονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “φυσιογνωμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press