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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”) + -ιᾱ (-iā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ɡnoi̯.a/ → /ˈa.ɣny.a/ → /ˈa.ɣni.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓́γνοιᾰ • (ágnoia) f (genitive ᾰ̓γνοίᾱς); first declension
- The state of not knowing or perceiving: ignorance, unawareness
Inflection
Descendants
- άγνοια f (ágnoia, “ignorance”)
References
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγνοια 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
- ἄγνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G52 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.