εἰρωνεία

See also: ειρωνεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἴρων (eírōn, “one who feigns ignorance”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.rɔː.něː.aː/ → /i.roˈni.a/ → /i.roˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.rɔː.něː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.roˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.roˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.roˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.roˈni.a/

Noun

εἰρωνείᾱ • (eirōneíā) f (genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension

1. hypocrisy, deception, especially a feigned ignorance
2. An assumed appearance, pretext
3. The act of sealioning.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ; τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ hē eirōneíā	τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā	αἱ εἰρωνεῖαι hai eirōneîai
Genitive	τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς tês eirōneíās	τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain	τῶν εἰρωνειῶν tôn eirōneiôn
Dative	τῇ εἰρωνείᾳ têi eirōneíāi	τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain	ταῖς εἰρωνείαις taîs eirōneíais
Accusative	τὴν εἰρωνείᾱν tḕn eirōneíān	τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā	τᾱ̀ς εἰρωνείᾱς tā̀s eirōneíās
Vocative	εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā	εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā	εἰρωνεῖαι eirōneîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: īrōnīa

References

• “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰρωνεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• εἰρωνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dissimulation idem, page 239.
  • hypocrisy idem, page 412.
  • irony idem, page 459.