ἀγνόημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀγνοέω (agnoéō, “to not know”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡnó.ɛː.ma/ → /aˈɣno.i.ma/ → /aˈɣno.i.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡnó.ɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡno.e̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.i.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.i.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.i.ma/

Noun

ᾰ̓γνόημᾰ • (ăgnóēmă) n (genitive ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτος); third declension

1. fault of ignorance, oversight
   • 485 BCE – 380 BCE, Gorgias, Encomium of Helen 19
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.4.8
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.1
   • 190 BCE – 120 BCE, Hipparchus, Collected Works 1.3.11
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Tobit 3.3
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 9:7
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 7.2.4
   • 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 7

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ᾰ̓γνόημᾰ; τοῦ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓γνόημᾰ tò ăgnóēmă	τὼ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτε tṑ ăgnoḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτᾰ tằ ăgnoḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτος toû ăgnoḗmătos	τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοημᾰ́τοιν toîn ăgnoēmắtoin	τῶν ᾰ̓γνοημᾰ́των tôn ăgnoēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτῐ tôi ăgnoḗmătĭ	τοῖν ᾰ̓γνοημᾰ́τοιν toîn ăgnoēmắtoin	τοῖς ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰσῐ / ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰσῐν toîs ăgnoḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓γνόημᾰ tò ăgnóēmă	τὼ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτε tṑ ăgnoḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτᾰ tằ ăgnoḗmătă
Vocative	ᾰ̓γνόημᾰ ăgnóēmă	ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτε ăgnoḗmăte	ᾰ̓γνοήμᾰτᾰ ăgnoḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀγνόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγνόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγνόημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγνόημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G51 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible