Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀγρυπνίᾱ • ‎(agrupníā) f ‎(genitive ἀγρυπνίᾱς); first declension

1. sleeplessness, watchfulness
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 2.3
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 43.B
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων 42
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.129
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 27
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 460.D
2. a time of watching
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 368.B
   • 482 CE – 565 CE, Justinian, New Constitutions 13

Inflection

References

• ἀγρυπνία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγρυπνία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀγρυπνία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀγρυπνία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G70”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • restlessness idem, page 705.
  • sleeplessness idem, page 783.
  • vigilance idem, page 951.
  • wakefulness idem, page 960.
  • watchfulness idem, page 966.