ἀπονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄπονος (áponos, “without toil, painless”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.po.ní.aː/ → /a.poˈni.a/ → /a.poˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.po.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.poˈni.a/

Noun

ἀπονῐ́ᾱ • (aponĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀπονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. laziness, freedom from toil
2. (Epicurean philosophy) freedom from pain

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ hē aponĭ́ā	τὼ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ tṑ aponĭ́ā	αἱ ἀπονῐ́αι hai aponĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς tês aponĭ́ās	τοῖν ἀπονῐ́αιν toîn aponĭ́ain	τῶν ἀπονῐῶν tôn aponĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἀπονῐ́ᾳ têi aponĭ́āi	τοῖν ἀπονῐ́αιν toîn aponĭ́ain	ταῖς ἀπονῐ́αις taîs aponĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἀπονῐ́ᾱν tḕn aponĭ́ān	τὼ ἀπονῐ́ᾱ tṑ aponĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἀπονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aponĭ́ās
Vocative	ἀπονῐ́ᾱ aponĭ́ā	ἀπονῐ́ᾱ aponĭ́ā	ἀπονῐ́αι aponĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: απονιά (aponiá, “heartlessness”)

Further reading

• “ἀπονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀπονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀπονία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)