Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀκουή ‎(akouḗ) Epic

Noun

ἀκοή • ‎(akoḗ) f ‎(genitive ἀκοῆς); first declension

1. a hearing, the sound heard
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.634
   1. the thing heard, news, tidings
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.308
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.701
      • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 21.A
   2. the thing heard, report, saying, fame
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.162
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.174
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.135
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.29
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.126
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 61.D
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.73
2. the sense of hearing
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.38
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65.B
   1. the act of hearing, hearing
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 690
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 30
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1412
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1496
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1480
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 900.A
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 962
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 24.5.9
   2. the ear
      • 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 2.12
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.6.12
3. a hearing, a listening
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 142.D

Inflection

References

• ἀκοή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀκοή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀκοή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀκοή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G189”, 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.
  • ear idem, page 258.
  • hearing idem, page 392.
  • hearsay idem, page 392.
  • tradition idem, page 885.