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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄνοος (ánoos, “silly, witless”) + -ῐᾱ (-iā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.noi̯.aː/ → /ˈa.ny.a/ → /ˈa.ni.a/
Noun
ἄνοιᾱ • (ánoiā) f (genitive ἀνοίᾱς); first declension
- lack of understanding, folly
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄνοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄνοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G454 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.
- absurdity idem, page 4.
- folly idem, page 332.
- giddiness idem, page 359.
- idiocy idem, page 413.
- imbecility idem, page 417.
- lunacy idem, page 504.
- senselessness idem, page 753.
- silliness idem, page 776.
- stupidity idem, page 830.
- unwisdom idem, page 937.
- vanity idem, page 943.
- witlessness idem, page 985.