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ἀμβλυωπία

ἀμβλυωπία

Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ • ‎(ambluōpíā) f ‎(genitive ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱς); first declension

dim-sightedness, blurred or distorted vision, myopia or astigmatism
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.31–33
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 374.d
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 847.a.2
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 16.2.41
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.732.c
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.452
- Thessal. 167.10
- 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 57.2.4
- Paul.Aeg. 3.22.25

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ	τὼ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ	αἱ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́αι
Genitive	τῆς ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱς	τοῖν ἀμβλῠωπῐ́αιν	τῶν ἀμβλῠωπῐῶν
Dative	τῇ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾳ	τοῖν ἀμβλῠωπῐ́αιν	ταῖς ἀμβλῠωπῐ́αις
Accusative	τὴν ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱν	τὼ ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ	τᾱ̀ς ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱς
Vocative	ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ	ἀμβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ	ἀμβλῠωπῐ́αι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀμβλῠωπητῐκός ‎(ambluōpētikós) (Byzantine)
ἀμβλῠωπῐάζω ‎(ambluōpiázō) (Byzantine)

Descendants

Latin: amblyōpia

References

ἀμβλυωπία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
«ἀμβλυωπία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)