ἀπληστία

See also: απληστία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄπληστος (áplēstos, “insatiable, greedy”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix), ultimately from πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “to fill”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.plɛːs.tí.aː/ → /a.plisˈti.a/ → /a.plisˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.plɛːs.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ple̝sˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.plisˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.plisˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.plisˈti.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ • (aplēstíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. insatiate desire, greediness (of something: [+genitive])

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ hē aplēstíā	τὼ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ tṑ aplēstíā	αἱ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́αι hai aplēstíai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱς tês aplēstíās	τοῖν ᾰ̓πληστῐ́αιν toîn aplēstíain	τῶν ᾰ̓πληστῐῶν tôn aplēstiôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾳ têi aplēstíāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓πληστῐ́αιν toîn aplēstíain	ταῖς ᾰ̓πληστῐ́αις taîs aplēstíais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱν tḕn aplēstíān	τὼ ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ tṑ aplēstíā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aplēstíās
Vocative	ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ aplēstíā	ᾰ̓πληστῐ́ᾱ aplēstíā	ᾰ̓πληστῐ́αι aplēstíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: απληστία (aplistía)

Further reading

• “ἀπληστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀπληστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπληστία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀπληστία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)