ἁγνισμός

See also: αγνισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁγνίζω (hagnízō, “to purify, cleanse”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.ɡniz.mós/ → /a.ɣnizˈmos/ → /a.ɣnizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.ɡniz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)a.ɡnizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣnizˈmos/

Noun

ᾰ̔γνῐσμός • (hagnismós) m (genitive ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. purification, expiation
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.22
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Numbers 6.5

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̔γνῐσμός; τοῦ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̔γνῐσμός ho hagnismós	τὼ ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ tṑ hagnismṓ	οἱ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοί hoi hagnismoí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῦ toû hagnismoû	τοῖν ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖν toîn hagnismoîn	τῶν ᾰ̔γνῐσμῶν tôn hagnismôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̔γνῐσμῷ tôi hagnismôi	τοῖν ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖν toîn hagnismoîn	τοῖς ᾰ̔γνῐσμοῖς toîs hagnismoîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̔γνῐσμόν tòn hagnismón	τὼ ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ tṑ hagnismṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̔γνῐσμούς toùs hagnismoús
Vocative	ᾰ̔γνῐσμέ hagnismé	ᾰ̔γνῐσμώ hagnismṓ	ᾰ̔γνῐσμοί hagnismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αγνισμός (agnismós)

Further reading

• “ἁγνισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἁγνισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁγνισμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G49 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible