μισογυνία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑσόγῠνος (mīsógunos, “hating women”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), 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 • (mīsoguníā) 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 mīsoguníā	τὼ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsoguníā	αἱ μῑσογῠνῐ́αι hai mīsoguníai
Genitive	τῆς μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς tês mīsoguníās	τοῖν μῑσογῠνῐ́αιν toîn mīsoguníain	τῶν μῑσογῠνῐῶν tôn mīsoguniôn
Dative	τῇ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾳ têi mīsoguníāi	τοῖν μῑσογῠνῐ́αιν toîn mīsoguníain	ταῖς μῑσογῠνῐ́αις taîs mīsoguníais
Accusative	τὴν μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱν tḕn mīsoguníān	τὼ μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mīsoguníā	τᾱ̀ς μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mīsoguníās
Vocative	μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ mīsoguníā	μῑσογῠνῐ́ᾱ mīsoguníā	μῑσογῠνῐ́αι mīsoguníai
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