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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + σχολή (skholḗ) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.kʰo.lí.aː/ → /as.xoˈli.a/ → /as.xoˈli.a/
Noun
ἀσχολίᾱ • (askholíā) f (genitive ἀσχολίᾱς); first declension
- occupation, business, lack of leisure
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀσχολία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσχολία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἀσχολία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀσχολία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀσχολία”, 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.