ἁγνεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁγνός (hagnós, “pure, holy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.ɡněː.aː/ → /aˈɣni.a/ → /aˈɣni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.ɡněː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)aˈɡni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣni.a/

Noun

ἁγνείᾱ • (hagneíā) f (genitive ἁγνείᾱς); first declension

1. purity, chastity
2. purification, cleansing

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἁγνείᾱ; τῆς ἁγνείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁγνείᾱ hē hagneíā	τὼ ἁγνείᾱ tṑ hagneíā	αἱ ἁγνεῖαι hai hagneîai
Genitive	τῆς ἁγνείᾱς tês hagneíās	τοῖν ἁγνείαιν toîn hagneíain	τῶν ἁγνειῶν tôn hagneiôn
Dative	τῇ ἁγνείᾳ têi hagneíāi	τοῖν ἁγνείαιν toîn hagneíain	ταῖς ἁγνείαις taîs hagneíais
Accusative	τὴν ἁγνείᾱν tḕn hagneíān	τὼ ἁγνείᾱ tṑ hagneíā	τᾱ̀ς ἁγνείᾱς tā̀s hagneíās
Vocative	ἁγνείᾱ hagneíā	ἁγνείᾱ hagneíā	ἁγνεῖαι hagneîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἁγνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἁγνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἁγνεία 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
• ἁγνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G47 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.
  • chastity idem, page 127.
  • purity idem, page 658.
  • spotlessness idem, page 804.
  • stainlessness idem, page 809.
  • virginity idem, page 954.
  • virtue idem, page 954.