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ἀγνωσίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγνωσίᾱ ἀγνωσίᾱς

Structure: ἀγνωσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: a)gnw/s

Sense

  1. ignorance
  2. obscurity

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ τῆσ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων συμβουλίασ διαμαρτόντεσ ἢ καταφρονήσαντεσ παρ’ ὅλον τὸν βίον τῆσ ἑαυτῶν ἀγνωσίασ ὑπομνήματ’ ἔχουσιν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 42:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ οὔτε ἡ τῶν κηρύκων ἀνάκλησισ τῆσ εὐγενείασ τῶν πατρικίων τεκμήριον, οὔτε ἡ τῆσ βυκάνησ φωνὴ τῆσ ἀγνωσίασ τῶν δημοτικῶν σύμβολον, ἀλλ’ ἐκείνη μὲν τιμῆσ, αὕτη δὲ τάχουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 8 6:2)
  • καίτοι τίνα μείζω διαίρεσιν ἀγνωσίασ τε καὶ γνώσεωσ θήσομεν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 307:5)
  • μετὰ δ’ οὐ πολὺ βιασθέντεσ τε καὶ ἀναχωροῦντεσ ἐσπίπτουσιν ἔσ τινα δεξαμενὴν ὕδατοσ ὑπ’ ἀγνωσίασ, ἔνθα οἱ πλείουσ ἀπώλοντο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 11:7)
  • πολὺσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοσ ἀστῶν τε καὶ ξένων ἐγίγνετο φόνοσ, οὐ προβεβουλευμένοσ, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂σ ἐκ θορύβου πολιτικοῦ καὶ ἀγνωσίασ τῶν ἐπιλαβόντων, οἵ τε γὰρ μονομάχοι, ὡπλισμένοι ἑώθεν ὡσ ἐπὶ δή τινα θέασ ἐπίδειξιν, ἐκ τοῦ θεάτρου διέθεον ἐσ τὰ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου παραφράγματα, καὶ τὸ θέατρον ὑπὸ ἐκπλήξεωσ σὺν φόβῳ καὶ δρόμῳ διελύετο, τά τε ὤνια ἡρπάζετο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 17 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. ignorance

  2. obscurity

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