ἀκακία

See also: ακακία

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
 

Etymology 1
ἀκακία – Vachellia tortilis

First found from the Egyptiots Aretaios and Dioskurides, a borrowing from Coptic ⲕⲁⲕⲉ (kake), ⲕⲉⲕⲉⲓ (kekei, “darkness”) from Egyptian kkw (“darkness”), acknowledging its providing shade in the desert, with a preformative analogical to ἄκανθα (ákantha).

Noun

ἀκᾰκίᾱ • (akakíā) f (genitive ἀκᾰκίᾱς); first declension (Koine)

  1. An acacia tree (tribe Acacieae).
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Plural
Nominative ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ
hē akakíā		 αἱ ἀκᾰκῐ́αι
hai akakíai
Genitive τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς
tês akakíās		 τῶν ἀκᾰκῐῶν
tôn akakiôn
Dative τῇ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾳ
têi akakíāi		 ταῖς ἀκᾰκῐ́αις
taîs akakíais
Accusative τὴν ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱν
tḕn akakíān		 τᾱ̀ς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς
tā̀s akakíās
Vocative ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ
akakíā		 ἀκᾰκῐ́αι
akakíai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Descendants

Further reading
  • “ἀκακία (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Kramer, Johannes (2010) “10. ἀκακία, ἄκανθα / acacia, acantha”, in Von der Papyrologie zur Romanistik (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 30), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 155
  • “ἀκακία – Acacia sp.”, in Dioscórides Interactivo‎ (in Spanish), 2024

Etymology 2

From ἄκακος (ákakos, “without malice”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ κακός (kakós, “evil”).

Noun

ἀκᾰκίᾱ • (akakíā) f (genitive ἀκᾰκίᾱς); first declension (Attic, Koine)

  1. innocence
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ
hē akakíā
Genitive τῆς ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱς
tês akakíās
Dative τῇ ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾳ
têi akakíāi
Accusative τὴν ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱν
tḕn akakíān
Vocative ἀκᾰκῐ́ᾱ
akakíā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
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