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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἁγνός (hagnós, “pure, holy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha.ɡněː.aː/ → /aˈɣni.a/ → /aˈɣni.a/
Noun
ἁγνείᾱ • (hagneíā) f (genitive ἁγνείᾱς); first declension
- purity, chastity
- purification, cleansing
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἁγνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἁγνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἁγνεία 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
- ἁγνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G47 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.