πορνεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πορνεύω (porneúō, “I prostitute”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“sell”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /por.něː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /porˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /porˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /porˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /porˈni.a/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πορνείᾱ hē porneíā |
τὼ πορνείᾱ tṑ porneíā |
αἱ πορνεῖαι hai porneîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πορνείᾱς tês porneíās |
τοῖν πορνείαιν toîn porneíain |
τῶν πορνειῶν tôn porneiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πορνείᾳ têi porneíāi |
τοῖν πορνείαιν toîn porneíain |
ταῖς πορνείαις taîs porneíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πορνείᾱν tḕn porneíān |
τὼ πορνείᾱ tṑ porneíā |
τᾱ̀ς πορνείᾱς tā̀s porneíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πορνείᾱ porneíā |
πορνείᾱ porneíā |
πορνεῖαι porneîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πορνεία (porneía)
Further reading
- “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πορνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πορνεία 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
- G4202 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fornication idem, page 339.
- harlotry idem, page 386.
- prostitution idem, page 653.
- whoredom idem, page 978.
Greek
Etymology
Learnedly, borrowed from Ancient Greek πορνεία (porneía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poɾˈni.a/
- Hyphenation: πορ‧νεί‧α
Declension
πορνεία
| case \ number | singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | πορνεία • |
| genitive | πορνείας • |
| accusative | πορνεία • |
| vocative | πορνεία • |
Synonyms
euphemistic expressions:
- αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα n (archaiótero epángelma, “oldest profession”)
- αρχαιότερο επάγγελμα του κόσμου n (archaiótero epángelma tou kósmou, “oldest profession in the world”)
Further reading
πορνεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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