ἐντροπία

See also: εντροπία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐντρέπω (entrépō) +‎ -ία (-ía), the former from ἐν- (en-) +‎ τρέπω (trépō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /en.tro.pí.aː/ → /en.troˈpi.a/ → /en.droˈpi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /en.tro.pí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /en.troˈpi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /en.droˈpi.a/

Noun

ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ • (entropĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. a turning towards

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ hē entropĭ́ā	τὼ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ tṑ entropĭ́ā	αἱ ἐντροπῐ́αι hai entropĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς tês entropĭ́ās	τοῖν ἐντροπῐ́αιν toîn entropĭ́ain	τῶν ἐντροπῐῶν tôn entropĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἐντροπῐ́ᾳ têi entropĭ́āi	τοῖν ἐντροπῐ́αιν toîn entropĭ́ain	ταῖς ἐντροπῐ́αις taîs entropĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἐντροπῐ́ᾱν tḕn entropĭ́ān	τὼ ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ tṑ entropĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἐντροπῐ́ᾱς tā̀s entropĭ́ās
Vocative	ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ entropĭ́ā	ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ entropĭ́ā	ἐντροπῐ́αι entropĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• German: Entropie
  • English: entropy
  • French: entropie

Further reading

• “ἐντροπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐντροπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐντροπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐντροπία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἐντροπία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011