ἀκακία
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ἀκακία – Vachellia tortilis
See also: ακακία
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ka.kí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.kaˈki.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.kaˈci.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.kaˈci.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.kaˈci.a/
Etymology 1
First found from the Egyptiots Aretaios and Dioskurides, a borrowing from Coptic ⲕⲁⲕⲉ (kake), ⲕⲉⲕⲉⲓ (kekei, “darkness”) from Egyptian kkw (“darkness”), acknowledging its providing shade in the desert, with a preformative analogical to ἄκανθα (ákantha).
Noun
ἀκᾰκίᾱ • (akakíā) f (genitive ἀκᾰκίᾱς); first declension (Koine)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ hē akakíā |
αἱ ἀκᾰκῐ́αι hai akakíai | |||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς tês akakíās |
τῶν ἀκᾰκῐῶν tôn akakiôn | |||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾳ têi akakíāi |
ταῖς ἀκᾰκῐ́αις taîs akakíais | |||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn akakíān |
τᾱ̀ς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s akakíās | |||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ akakíā |
ἀκᾰκῐ́αι akakíai | |||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀκακία (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Kramer, Johannes (2010) “10. ἀκακία, ἄκανθα / acacia, acantha”, in Von der Papyrologie zur Romanistik (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 30), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 155
- “ἀκακία – Acacia sp.”, in Dioscórides Interactivo (in Spanish), 2024
Etymology 2
From ἄκακος (ákakos, “without malice”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κακός (kakós, “evil”).
Noun
ἀκᾰκίᾱ • (akakíā) f (genitive ἀκᾰκίᾱς); first declension (Attic, Koine)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ hē akakíā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς tês akakíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾳ têi akakíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn akakíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ akakíā | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀκᾰκία (B)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκακία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκακία 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
- ἀκακία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀκακία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften