κακοφωνία
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From κᾰκόφωνος (kakóphōnos, “ill-sounding, producing disagreeable sounds”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), that from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.ko.pʰɔː.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.ko.pʰoˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.ko.ɸoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.ko.foˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.ko.foˈni.a/
Noun
[edit]κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ • (kakophōníā) f (genitive κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- an ill-sound, cacophony
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ hē kakophōníā |
τὼ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakophōníā |
αἱ κᾰκοφωνῐ́αι hai kakophōníai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς tês kakophōníās |
τοῖν κᾰκοφωνῐ́αιν toîn kakophōníain |
τῶν κᾰκοφωνῐῶν tôn kakophōniôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾳ têi kakophōníāi |
τοῖν κᾰκοφωνῐ́αιν toîn kakophōníain |
ταῖς κᾰκοφωνῐ́αις taîs kakophōníais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn kakophōníān |
τὼ κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakophōníā |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kakophōníās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ kakophōníā |
κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ kakophōníā |
κᾰκοφωνῐ́αι kakophōníai | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
[edit]- εὐφωνῐ́ᾱ (euphōníā, “euphony”)
Descendants
[edit]- Russian: какофо́ния f (kakofónija)
References
[edit]- “κακοφωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κακοφωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette