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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πορνεύω (porneúō, “to prostitute, to whore”) + -ίᾱ (-íā, “-ia: forming abstract nouns”), from πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute, whore”) + -εύω (-eúō, forming verbs), from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to sell, to provide for a fee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /por.něː.aː/ → /porˈni.a/ → /porˈni.a/
Noun
πορνείᾱ • (porneíā) f (genitive πορνείᾱς); first declension
- whoring, prostitution, provision of sex for money
- whoring, fornication, behavior similar to a whore
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πορνεία 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
- G4202 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.
Greek
Etymology
Learnedly, borrowed from Ancient Greek πορνεία (porneía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poɾˈni.a/
- Hyphenation: πορ‧νεί‧α
Noun
πορνεία • (porneía) f (uncountable)
- prostitution
Declension
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nominative
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πορνεία (porneía)
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genitive
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πορνείας (porneías)
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accusative
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πορνεία (porneía)
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vocative
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πορνεία (porneía)
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Synonyms
euphemistic expressions:
- and see: πόρνη f (pórni, “prostitute”)
Further reading