ἀγνώς

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + the root of γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”). Compare ἄγνωτος (ágnōtos) and Latin īgnōtus.

ᾰ̓γνώς • (agnṓs) m or f (neuter —); third declension

1. in passive constructions:
   1. (chiefly of persons) unknown
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.79
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 677
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1008
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 14
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137.2
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 375e
   2. (of things) obscure, unintelligible
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1051
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1001
   3. obscure, ignoble
      • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 18
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.12
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Julianus Imperator to this entry?)
2. (in active constructions) ignorant
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 678
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.13
3. (active voice or passive voice) construed with the genitive
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.30
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.53.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 178a

• ᾰ̓γνωσῐ́ᾱ (agnōsíā)

• “ἀγνώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγνώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀγνώς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀγνώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγνώς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀγνώς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀγνώς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hypothetical idem, page 412.
  • ignorant idem, page 414.
  • stranger idem, page 823.
  • unacquainted idem, page 906.
  • unknown idem, page 923.