ἀνομία

See also: ἀνομίᾳ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀνομίη (anomíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἄνομος (ánomos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.no.mí.aː/ → /a.noˈmi.a/ → /a.noˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.no.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.noˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.noˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.noˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.noˈmi.a/

Noun

ἀνομίᾱ • (anomíā) f (genitive ἀνομίᾱς); first declension

1. lawlessness
2. iniquity

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀνομίᾱ; τῆς ἀνομίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ἀνομίᾱ hē anomíā
Genitive	τῆς ἀνομίᾱς tês anomíās
Dative	τῇ ἀνομίᾳ têi anomíāi
Accusative	τὴν ἀνομίᾱν tḕn anomíān
Vocative	ἀνομίᾱ anomíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: anomie (see there for further descendants)
• → Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹 (ungaraihtei) (calque)

Further reading

• ἀνομία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀνομία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀνομία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀνομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G458 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anarchy idem, page 28.
  • lawlessness idem, page 480.
  • licence idem, page 488.
  • licentiousness idem, page 489.
  • misrule idem, page 535.
  • profligacy idem, page 653.
  • unlawfulness idem, page 924.
  • unrighteousness idem, page 930.
  • unruliness idem, page 930.
  • wickedness idem, page 978.