Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ironía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ironía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iɾonía/

Noun

εἰρωνεία • ‎(eirōneía) f ‎(genitive εἰρωνείᾱς); first declension

1. hypocrisy, deception, especially a feigned ignorance
2. An assumed appearance, pretext

Inflection

Descendants

• English: irony
• Russian: ирония ‎(irónija)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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.