ἀπορία

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aporia"

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓πορῐ́η (ăporĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ᾰ̓́πορος (ắporos, “impassable, difficult”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.po.rí.aː/ → /a.poˈri.a/ → /a.poˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.po.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.poˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.poˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.poˈri.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ • (ăporĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (of places) a difficulty in passage
2. difficulty, impossibility
3. embarrassment, doubt, uncertainty, anxiety
4. need, poverty
5. puzzle

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ hē ăporĭ́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăporĭ́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓πορῐ́αι hai ăporĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱς tês ăporĭ́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓πορῐ́αιν toîn ăporĭ́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓πορῐῶν tôn ăporĭôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾳ tēî ăporĭ́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓πορῐ́αιν toîn ăporĭ́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓πορῐ́αις taîs ăporĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱν tḕn ăporĭ́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăporĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ăporĭ́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ ăporĭ́ā	ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ ăporĭ́ā	ᾰ̓πορῐ́αι ăporĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: aporia
  • English: aporia
  • French: aporie
• Greek: απορία (aporía)

References

• “ἀπορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀπορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπορία 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
• ἀπορία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀπορία”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G640 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arduousness idem, page 39.
  • awkwardness idem, page 56.
  • beggary idem, page 70.
  • bewilderment idem, page 77.
  • conflict idem, page 159.
  • confusion idem, page 159.
  • deadlock idem, page 198.
  • dearth idem, page 198.
  • debate idem, page 199.
  • deficiency idem, page 205.
  • despair idem, page 216.
  • desperation idem, page 217.
  • destitution idem, page 218.
  • difficulty idem, page 223.
  • dilemma idem, page 224.
  • distraction idem, page 242.
  • distress idem, page 242.
  • doubt idem, page 248.
  • dubiousness idem, page 255.
  • embarrassment idem, page 267.
  • entanglement idem, page 276.
  • exigence idem, page 292.
  • fluctuation idem, page 330.
  • helplessness idem, page 396.
  • hesitation idem, page 398.
  • hopelessness idem, page 406.
  • impossibilty idem, page 423.
  • impotence idem, page 423.
  • impracticability idem, page 423.
  • inadequacy idem, page 427.
  • indigence idem, page 433.
  • insufficiency idem, page 447.
  • irresolution idem, page 460.
  • knot idem, page 471.
  • laboriousness idem, page 472.
  • lack idem, page 473.
  • misgiving idem, page 534.
  • narrow idem, page 551.
  • need idem, page 554.
  • neediness idem, page 554.
  • pass idem, page 595.
  • penury idem, page 604.
  • perplexity idem, page 607.
  • pickle idem, page 611.
  • pinch idem, page 613.
  • poverty idem, page 630.
  • predicament idem, page 634.
  • privation idem, page 642.
  • problem idem, page 643.
  • puzzle idem, page 662.
  • quandary idem, page 663.
  • question idem, page 665.
  • requirement idem, page 700.
  • riddle idem, page 713.
  • rub idem, page 724.
  • scarcity idem, page 737.
  • scrape idem, page 742.
  • shiftlessness idem, page 765.
  • slenderness idem, page 784.
  • stint idem, page 818.
  • strait idem, page 822.
  • straiten idem, page 823.
  • suspense idem, page 845.
  • tangle idem, page 855.
  • trouble idem, page 897.
  • uncertainty idem, page 909.
  • uncomfortableness idem, page 910.
  • uneasiness idem, page 916.
  • vacillation idem, page 942.
  • want idem, page 961.
  • wavering idem, page 968.