μαλακία

See also: μαλάκια and μαλακιά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μαλακίη (malakíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From μαλακός (malakós, “soft, effeminate”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.la.kí.aː/ → /ma.laˈci.a/ → /ma.laˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.la.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.laˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.laˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.laˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.laˈci.a/

Noun

μᾰλᾰκίᾱ • (malakíā) f (genitive μᾰλᾰκίᾱς); first declension

1. softness, delicacy, effeminacy
2. impatience, weakness
3. calmness (of the sea)
4. (Koine) disease
5. (Byzantine) masturbation

Declension

First declension of ἡ μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ hē malakíā	τὼ μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ malakíā	αἱ μᾰλᾰκῐ́αι hai malakíai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱς tês malakíās	τοῖν μᾰλᾰκῐ́αιν toîn malakíain	τῶν μᾰλᾰκῐῶν tôn malakiôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾳ têi malakíāi	τοῖν μᾰλᾰκῐ́αιν toîn malakíain	ταῖς μᾰλᾰκῐ́αις taîs malakíais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn malakíān	τὼ μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ malakíā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s malakíās
Vocative	μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ malakíā	μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ malakíā	μᾰλᾰκῐ́αι malakíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal 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.

Derived terms

• μαλακιάω (malakiáō)

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: μαλακία (malakía)
  • → Russian: малафья́ (malafʹjá), молофья́ (molofʹjá)
• → English: malacia
• → French: malacie
• → German: Malazie
• → Italian: malacia
• → Latin: malacia
• → Romanian: malahie
• → Russian: малакия (malakija)

Further reading

• μαλακία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μαλακία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] 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^[1], 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): [malaˈkia]
• Hyphenation: μα‧λα‧κί‧α

Noun

μαλακία • (malakía) f (plural μαλακίες)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) masturbation, wanking

   Η μαλακία σε κάνει τυφλό.

   I malakía se kánei tyfló.

   Wanking makes you blind.

2. (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

	singular	plural
nominative	μαλακία (malakía)	μαλακίες (malakíes)
genitive	μαλακίας (malakías)	μαλακιών (malakión)
accusative	μαλακία (malakía)	μαλακίες (malakíes)
vocative	μαλακία (malakía)	μαλακίες (malakíes)

Synonyms

• (masturbation): αυνανισμός m (avnanismós)
• (nonsense): ανοησία f (anoïsía)

Derived terms

• δια πάσαν νόσον και μαλακίαν (dia pásan nóson kai malakían, “through every sickness and weakness”)
• τραβάω μαλακία (traváo malakía, “wank”)

Related terms

• μαλάκας m (malákas, “wanker”)
• μαλακίζομαι (malakízomai, “to wank”)

Descendants

• → Russian: малафья́ (malafʹjá), молофья́ (molofʹjá)