φυσιογνωμονία
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- φυσιογνωμονίη (phusiognōmoníē) — Ionic
Etymology
[edit]From φυσιογνώμων (phusiognṓmōn, “judging of a person's character by their features”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡnɔː.mo.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰy.si.o.ɡno.moˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸy.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fy.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fi.si.o.ɣno.moˈni.a/
Noun
[edit]φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ • (phusiognōmoníā) f (genitive φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς); first declension
- the practice of judging a person's character by their features
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ hē phusiognōmoníā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱς tês phusiognōmoníās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φῠσῐογνωμονίᾳ têi phusiognōmoníāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱν tḕn phusiognōmoníān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | φῠσῐογνωμονίᾱ phusiognōmoníā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → French: phyiognomonie
Further reading
[edit]- φυσιογνωμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “φυσιογνωμονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “φυσιογνωμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press