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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐννοέω (ennoéō, “to consider, reflect upon”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /én.noi̯.a/ → /ˈen.ny.a/ → /ˈe.ni.a/
Noun
ἔννοιᾰ • (énnoia) f (genitive ἐννοίᾱς); first declension
- the act of thinking, thought, consideration
- a thought, notion, conception
- a thought, intent, design
- (lexicography) the sense of a word
- (in rhetoric) a thought put into words, a sentence
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἔννοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔννοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔννοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔννοια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1771 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.
- conceit idem, page 154.
- consideration idem, page 163.
- debate idem, page 199.
- deliberation idem, page 207.
- design idem, page 215.
- fancy idem, page 306.
- idea idem, page 413.
- imagination idem, page 416.
- intention idem, page 449.
- meditation idem, page 522.
- mind idem, page 530.
- notion idem, page 562.
- plan idem, page 617.
- project idem, page 653.
- purpose idem, page 659.
- reflection idem, page 684.
- scheme idem, page 739.
- supposition idem, page 842.
- thought idem, page 868.
- will idem, page 979.