ἁρμονία

See also: αρμονία and Ἁρμονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “I fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /har.mo.ní.aː/ → /ar.moˈni.a/ → /ar.moˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /har.mo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ar.moˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.moˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.moˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.moˈni.a/

Noun

ἁρμονίᾱ • (harmoníā) f (genitive ἁρμονίᾱς); first declension

1. a fitting together, joint
2. union, league
3. ordinance, decree
4. a relation of sounds: harmony

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἁρμονίᾱ; τῆς ἁρμονίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁρμονίᾱ hē harmoníā	τὼ ἁρμονίᾱ tṑ harmoníā	αἱ ἁρμονίαι hai harmoníai
Genitive	τῆς ἁρμονίᾱς tês harmoníās	τοῖν ἁρμονίαιν toîn harmoníain	τῶν ἁρμονιῶν tôn harmoniôn
Dative	τῇ ἁρμονίᾳ têi harmoníāi	τοῖν ἁρμονίαιν toîn harmoníain	ταῖς ἁρμονίαις taîs harmoníais
Accusative	τὴν ἁρμονίᾱν tḕn harmoníān	τὼ ἁρμονίᾱ tṑ harmoníā	τᾱ̀ς ἁρμονίᾱς tā̀s harmoníās
Vocative	ἁρμονίᾱ harmoníā	ἁρμονίᾱ harmoníā	ἁρμονίαι harmoníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: harmonia (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: гармония (garmonija)

Further reading

• “ἁρμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἁρμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἁρμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁρμονία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἁρμονία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • concord idem, page 156.
  • harmonia idem, page 386.
  • harmony idem, page 386.
  • symphony idem, page 850.
  • tunefulness idem, page 900.
  • unison idem, page 923.