ἀπονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄπονος (áponos, “without toil, painless”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.po.ní.aː/ → /a.poˈni.a/ → /a.poˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.po.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/

Noun

ἀπονῐ́ᾱ • (aponíā) f (genitive ἀπονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. laziness, freedom from toil
2. (Epicurean philosophy) freedom from pain

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ hē aponíā	τὼ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ tṑ aponíā	αἱ ἀπονῐ́αι hai aponíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς tês aponíās	τοῖν ἀπονῐ́αιν toîn aponíain	τῶν ἀπονῐῶν tôn aponiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀπονῐ́ᾳ têi aponíāi	τοῖν ἀπονῐ́αιν toîn aponíain	ταῖς ἀπονῐ́αις taîs aponíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀπονῐ́ᾱν tḕn aponíān	τὼ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ tṑ aponíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aponíās
Vocative	ἀπονῐ́ᾱ aponíā	ἀπονῐ́ᾱ aponíā	ἀπονῐ́αι aponíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: απονιά (aponiá, “heartlessness”)

Further reading

• “ἀπονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀπονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀπονία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)