μισανδρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσέω (mīséō, “to hate”) +‎ ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miː.san.drí.aː/ → /mi.sanˈdri.a/ → /mi.sanˈdri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /miː.san.drí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.sanˈdri.a/

Noun

μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ • (mīsăndrĭ́ā) f (genitive μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. hatred of men, misandry
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 228

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ hē mīsăndrĭ́ā	τὼ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsăndrĭ́ā	αἱ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αι hai mīsăndrĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς tês mīsăndrĭ́ās	τοῖν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αιν toîn mīsăndrĭ́ain	τῶν μῑσᾰνδρῐῶν tôn mīsăndrĭôn
Dative	τῇ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾳ têi mīsăndrĭ́āi	τοῖν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αιν toîn mīsăndrĭ́ain	ταῖς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αις taîs mīsăndrĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱν tḕn mīsăndrĭ́ān	τὼ μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsăndrĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mīsăndrĭ́ās
Vocative	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ mīsăndrĭ́ā	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́ᾱ mīsăndrĭ́ā	μῑσᾰνδρῐ́αι mīsăndrĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μισανδρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μισανδρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette