μισογυνία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσόγῠνος (mīsógŭnos, “hating women”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miː.so.ɡy.ní.aː/ → /mi.so.ʝyˈni.a/ → /mi.so.ʝiˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /miː.so.ɡy.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mi.so.ɡyˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.so.ʝyˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.so.ʝyˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.so.ʝiˈni.a/

Noun

μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ • (mīsogŭnĭ́ā) f (genitive μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. hatred of women, misogyny

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ hē mīsogŭnĭ́ā	τὼ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsogŭnĭ́ā	αἱ μῑσογῠνῐ́αι hai mīsogŭnĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς tês mīsogŭnĭ́ās	τοῖν μῑσογῠνῐ́αιν toîn mīsogŭnĭ́ain	τῶν μῑσογῠνῐῶν tôn mīsogŭnĭôn
Dative	τῇ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾳ têi mīsogŭnĭ́āi	τοῖν μῑσογῠνῐ́αιν toîn mīsogŭnĭ́ain	ταῖς μῑσογῠνῐ́αις taîs mīsogŭnĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱν tḕn mīsogŭnĭ́ān	τὼ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsogŭnĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mīsogŭnĭ́ās
Vocative	μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ mīsogŭnĭ́ā	μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ mīsogŭnĭ́ā	μῑσογῠνῐ́αι mīsogŭnĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: misogínia
• → English: misogyny
• → French: misogynie

References

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