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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μαλακός (malakós, “soft, effeminate”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.la.kí.aː/ → /ma.laˈci.a/ → /ma.laˈci.a/
Noun
μᾰλᾰκίᾱ • (mălăkíā) f (genitive μᾰλᾰκίᾱς); first declension
- softness, delicacy, effeminacy
- impatience, weakness
- calmness (of the sea)
- (Koine) disease
- (Byzantine) masturbation
Declension
Quotations
70 CE – 110 CE,
The Gospel of Matthew 10:1:
- καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τοὺς δώδεκα μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν πνευμάτων ἀκαθάρτων, ὥστε ἐκβάλλειν αὐτά, καὶ θεραπεύειν πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν.
- kaì proskalesámenos toùs dṓdeka mathētàs autoû, édōken autoîs exousían pneumátōn akathártōn, hṓste ekbállein autá, kaì therapeúein pâsan nóson kaì pâsan malakían.
- Translation by KJV
- And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
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Descendants
Further reading
- μαλακία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μαλακία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μαλακία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3119 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μαλακία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- delicacy idem, page 207.
- effeminacy idem, page 262.
- feebleness idem, page 313.
- languor idem, page 476.
- lifelessness idem, page 490.
- slackness idem, page 782.
- softness idem, page 791.
- supineness idem, page 840.
- tenderness idem, page 861.
- unmanliness idem, page 925.
- weakness idem, page 970.
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “μαλακία”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 730
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “self-indulgence, weakness”), from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft, effeminate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: μα‧λα‧κί‧α
Noun
μαλακία • (malakía) f (plural μαλακίες)
- (colloquial, vulgar) masturbation, wanking
Η μαλακία σε κάνει τυφλό.- I malakía se kánei tyfló.
- Wanking makes you blind.
- (colloquial, vulgar, figuratively) stupidity, idiocy, nonsense, bullshit
Όλο κάθεται και λέει μαλακίες.- Ólo káthetai kai léei malakíes.
- All he does is sit around and talk bullshit.
Declension
Declension of μαλακία
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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μαλακία (malakía)
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μαλακίες (malakíes)
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| genitive
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μαλακίας (malakías)
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μαλακιών (malakión)
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| accusative
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μαλακία (malakía)
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μαλακίες (malakíes)
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| vocative
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μαλακία (malakía)
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μαλακίες (malakíes)
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