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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πένης (pénēs, “poor”) or πενέω (penéō, “to be poor”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.ní.aː/ → /peˈni.a/ → /peˈni.a/
Noun
πενῐ́ᾱ • (peníā) f (genitive πενῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- poverty, indigence, beggary
- Antonyms: περῐουσῐ́ᾱ (periousíā), πλοῦτος (ploûtos)
Inflection
Further reading
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πενία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.