θρηνῳδία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θρηνῴδης (thrēnṓidēs, “like or fit for a dirge”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰrɛː.nɔːi̯.dí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰre.noˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θri.noˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θri.noˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θri.noˈði.a/
Noun
θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ • (thrēnōidíā) f (genitive θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- lamentation, mourning
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 604d:
- τάχιστα γίγνεσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἰᾶσθαί τε καὶ ἐπανορθοῦν τὸ πεσόν τε καὶ νοσῆσαν, ἰατρικῇ θρηνῳδίαν ἀφανίζοντα.
- tákhista gígnesthai pròs tò iâsthaí te kaì epanorthoûn tò pesón te kaì nosêsan, iatrikêi thrēnōidían aphanízonta.
- τάχιστα γίγνεσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἰᾶσθαί τε καὶ ἐπανορθοῦν τὸ πεσόν τε καὶ νοσῆσαν, ἰατρικῇ θρηνῳδίαν ἀφανίζοντα.
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ hē thrēnōidíā |
τὼ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ thrēnōidíā |
αἱ θρηνῳδῐ́αι hai thrēnōidíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς tês thrēnōidíās |
τοῖν θρηνῳδῐ́αιν toîn thrēnōidíain |
τῶν θρηνῳδῐῶν tôn thrēnōidiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾳ têi thrēnōidíāi |
τοῖν θρηνῳδῐ́αιν toîn thrēnōidíain |
ταῖς θρηνῳδῐ́αις taîs thrēnōidíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn thrēnōidíān |
τὼ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ thrēnōidíā |
τᾱ̀ς θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thrēnōidíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ thrēnōidíā |
θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ thrēnōidíā |
θρηνῳδῐ́αι thrēnōidíai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- θρηνῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θρηνῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρηνῳδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dirge idem, page 226.
- elegy idem, page 265.
- lamentation idem, page 474.
- threnody idem, page 870.
- wail idem, page 959.
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