ὀλιγανθρωπία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὀλιγο- (oligo-) +‎ ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.li.ɡan.tʰrɔː.pí.aː/ → /o.li.ɣan.θroˈpi.a/ → /o.li.ɣan.θroˈpi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.li.ɡan.tʰrɔː.pí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.li.ɡan.tʰroˈpi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.li.ɣan.θroˈpi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.li.ɣan.θroˈpi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.li.ɣan.θroˈpi.a/

Noun

ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱ • (oliganthrōpíā) f (genitive ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱς); first declension

1. scarcity of people

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱ; τῆς ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱ hē oliganthrōpíā
Genitive	τῆς ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱς tês oliganthrōpíās
Dative	τῇ ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾳ têi oliganthrōpíāi
Accusative	τὴν ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱν tḕn oliganthrōpíān
Vocative	ὀλῐγανθρωπίᾱ oliganthrōpíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ὀλιγανθρωπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὀλιγανθρωπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • depopulation idem, page 212.
  • desolation idem, page 216.
  • emptiness idem, page 269.
  • man idem, page 510.
  • paucity idem, page 599.
  • population idem, page 626.
  • scantiness idem, page 737.
  • sparseness idem, page 798.
  • thinness idem, page 867.