εἰρωνεία

See also: ειρωνεία

Ancient Greek

From εἴρων (eírōn, “one who feigns ignorance”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

εἰρωνείᾱ • (eirōneíā) f (genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ; τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰρωνείᾱ hē eirōneíā	τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā	αἱ εἰρωνεῖαι hai eirōneîai
Genitive	τῆς εἰρωνείᾱς tês eirōneíās	τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain	τῶν εἰρωνειῶν tôn eirōneiôn
Dative	τῇ εἰρωνείᾳ têi eirōneíāi	τοῖν εἰρωνείαιν toîn eirōneíain	ταῖς εἰρωνείαις taîs eirōneíais
Accusative	τὴν εἰρωνείᾱν tḕn eirōneíān	τὼ εἰρωνείᾱ tṑ eirōneíā	τᾱ̀ς εἰρωνείᾱς tā̀s eirōneíās
Vocative	εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā	εἰρωνείᾱ eirōneíā	εἰρωνεῖαι eirōneîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εἰρωνεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
εἰρωνεία 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
εἰρωνεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dissimulation idem, page 239.
- hypocrisy idem, page 412.
- irony idem, page 459.

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