ἁγνότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁγνός (hagnós, “sacred, pure”) +‎ -της (-tēs, abstract noun suffix). Cognate with Sanskrit यज्ञतति (yajñatati, “performance of a sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.ɡnó.tɛːs/ → /aˈɣno.tis/ → /aˈɣno.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.ɡnó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)aˈɡno.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣno.tis/

Noun

ἁγνότης • (hagnótēs) f (genitive ἁγνότητος); third declension

1. purity, chastity
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 6:5

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἁγνότης; τῆς ἁγνότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁγνότης hē hagnótēs	τὼ ἁγνότητε tṑ hagnótēte	αἱ ἁγνότητες hai hagnótētes
Genitive	τῆς ἁγνότητος tês hagnótētos	τοῖν ἁγνοτήτοιν toîn hagnotḗtoin	τῶν ἁγνοτήτων tôn hagnotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ ἁγνότητῐ têi hagnótētĭ	τοῖν ἁγνοτήτοιν toîn hagnotḗtoin	ταῖς ἁγνότησῐ / ἁγνότησῐν taîs hagnótēsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἁγνότητᾰ tḕn hagnótētă	τὼ ἁγνότητε tṑ hagnótēte	τᾱ̀ς ἁγνότητᾰς tā̀s hagnótētăs
Vocative	ἁγνότης hagnótēs	ἁγνότητε hagnótēte	ἁγνότητες hagnótētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Further reading

• “ἁγνότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἁγνότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἁγνότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁγνότης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G54 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible