ἁγνισμός

See also: αγνισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁγνίζω (hagnízō, “to purify, cleanse”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.ɡniz.mós/ → /a.ɣnizˈmos/ → /a.ɣnizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.ɡniz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)a.ɡnizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/

Noun

ᾰ̔γνῐσμός • (hăgnĭsmós) m (genitive ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. purification, expiation
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.22
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Numbers 6.5

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̔γνῐσμός; τοῦ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̔γνῐσμός ho hăgnĭsmós	τὼ ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ tṑ hăgnĭsmṓ	οἱ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοί hoi hăgnĭsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ toû hăgnĭsmoû	τοῖν ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖν toîn hăgnĭsmoîn	τῶν ᾰ̔γνῐσμῶν tôn hăgnĭsmôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̔γνῐσμῷ tôi hăgnĭsmôi	τοῖν ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖν toîn hăgnĭsmoîn	τοῖς ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖς toîs hăgnĭsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̔γνῐσμόν tòn hăgnĭsmón	τὼ ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ tṑ hăgnĭsmṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̔γνῐσμούς toùs hăgnĭsmoús
Vocative	ᾰ̔γνῐσμέ hăgnĭsmé	ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ hăgnĭsmṓ	ᾰ̔γνῐσμοί hăgnĭsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αγνισμός (agnismós)

Further reading

• “ἁγνισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἁγνισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁγνισμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G49 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible