"ἀπολογία" meaning in Ancient Greek

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "katēgoríā",
      "word": "κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱ"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "ᾰ̓πο-",
        "3": "λόγος",
        "4": "-ῐ́ᾱ",
        "pos3": "abstract noun–forming suffix",
        "t1": "back",
        "t2": "speech"
      },
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      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, “back”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apologíā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "hē apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αι",
      "roman": "hai apologíai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tês apologíās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn apologíain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν ᾰ̓πολογῐῶν",
      "roman": "tôn apologiôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾳ",
      "roman": "têi apologíāi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn apologíain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αις",
      "roman": "taîs apologíais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱν",
      "roman": "tḕn apologíān",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s apologíās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αι",
      "roman": "apologíai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
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      },
      "expansion": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ • (apologíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
        "2": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἀπο-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Attic Greek",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Koine Greek",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to make a defense",
          "roman": "apologíān poieîsthai",
          "text": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱν ποιεῖσθαι",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "1881 translation by Benjamin Jowett\nWe should never have asked to speak, if the Plataeans had briefly answered the question which was put to them, and had not turned upon us and arraigned us while they made a long and irrelevant defence of their own doings, excusing themselves from charges which nobody brought against them, and praising what nobody blamed.",
          "ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.61.1",
          "roman": "Toùs mèn lógous ouk àn ēitēsámetha eipeîn, ei kaì autoì brakhéōs tò erōtēthèn apekrínanto kaì mḕ epì hēmâs trapómenoi katēgorían epoiḗsanto kaì perì hautôn éxō tôn prokeiménōn kaì háma oudè ēitiaménōn pollḕn tḕn apologían kaì épainon hôn oudeìs emémpsato.",
          "text": "Τοὺς μὲν λόγους οὐκ ἂν ᾐτησάμεθα εἰπεῖν, εἰ καὶ αὐτοὶ βραχέως τὸ ἐρωτηθὲν ἀπεκρίναντο καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ ἡμᾶς τραπόμενοι κατηγορίαν ἐποιήσαντο καὶ περὶ αὑτῶν ἔξω τῶν προκειμένων καὶ ἅμα οὐδὲ ᾐτιαμένων πολλὴν τὴν ἀπολογίαν καὶ ἔπαινον ὧν οὐδεὶς ἐμέμψατο."
        },
        {
          "english": "1966 translation by Harold North Fowler\nWell then, men of Athens, that I am not a wrongdoer according to Meletus's indictment, seems to me not to need much of a defence, but what has been said is enough",
          "ref": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 28a",
          "roman": "allà gár, ô ándres Athēnaîoi, hōs mèn egṑ ouk adikô katà tḕn Melḗtou graphḗn, ou pollês moi dokeî eînai apologías, allà hikanà kaì taûta",
          "text": "ἀλλὰ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀδικῶ κατὰ τὴν Μελήτου γραφήν, οὐ πολλῆς μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ἀπολογίας, ἀλλὰ ἱκανὰ καὶ ταῦτα"
        },
        {
          "english": "because I am here for the defense of the gospel",
          "ref": "New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 1:16",
          "roman": "hóti eis apologían toû euangelíou keîmai",
          "text": "ὅτι εἰς ἀπολογίαν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου κεῖμαι"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a speech made in defense of something; apology"
      ],
      "id": "en-ἀπολογία-grc-noun-zO0Tgv2u",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "defense",
          "defense"
        ],
        [
          "apology",
          "apology"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Attic",
        "Koine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.lo.ɡí.aː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.lo.ɡí.aː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈɡi.a/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἀπολογία"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "katēgoríā",
      "word": "κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ᾰ̓πο-",
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        "4": "-ῐ́ᾱ",
        "pos3": "abstract noun–forming suffix",
        "t1": "back",
        "t2": "speech"
      },
      "expansion": "ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, “back”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, “back”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apologíā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "hē apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αι",
      "roman": "hai apologíai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tês apologíās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn apologíain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν ᾰ̓πολογῐῶν",
      "roman": "tôn apologiôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾳ",
      "roman": "têi apologíāi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn apologíain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αις",
      "roman": "taîs apologíais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱν",
      "roman": "tḕn apologíān",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s apologíās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "apologíā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́αι",
      "roman": "apologíai",
      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς",
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        "3": "first",
        "head": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ"
      },
      "expansion": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ • (apologíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
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        "1": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱ",
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  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
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        "Ancient Greek nouns",
        "Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
        "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἀπο-",
        "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία",
        "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
        "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
        "Ancient Greek terms with usage examples",
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        "Koine Greek"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to make a defense",
          "roman": "apologíān poieîsthai",
          "text": "ᾰ̓πολογῐ́ᾱν ποιεῖσθαι",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "1881 translation by Benjamin Jowett\nWe should never have asked to speak, if the Plataeans had briefly answered the question which was put to them, and had not turned upon us and arraigned us while they made a long and irrelevant defence of their own doings, excusing themselves from charges which nobody brought against them, and praising what nobody blamed.",
          "ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.61.1",
          "roman": "Toùs mèn lógous ouk àn ēitēsámetha eipeîn, ei kaì autoì brakhéōs tò erōtēthèn apekrínanto kaì mḕ epì hēmâs trapómenoi katēgorían epoiḗsanto kaì perì hautôn éxō tôn prokeiménōn kaì háma oudè ēitiaménōn pollḕn tḕn apologían kaì épainon hôn oudeìs emémpsato.",
          "text": "Τοὺς μὲν λόγους οὐκ ἂν ᾐτησάμεθα εἰπεῖν, εἰ καὶ αὐτοὶ βραχέως τὸ ἐρωτηθὲν ἀπεκρίναντο καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ ἡμᾶς τραπόμενοι κατηγορίαν ἐποιήσαντο καὶ περὶ αὑτῶν ἔξω τῶν προκειμένων καὶ ἅμα οὐδὲ ᾐτιαμένων πολλὴν τὴν ἀπολογίαν καὶ ἔπαινον ὧν οὐδεὶς ἐμέμψατο."
        },
        {
          "english": "1966 translation by Harold North Fowler\nWell then, men of Athens, that I am not a wrongdoer according to Meletus's indictment, seems to me not to need much of a defence, but what has been said is enough",
          "ref": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 28a",
          "roman": "allà gár, ô ándres Athēnaîoi, hōs mèn egṑ ouk adikô katà tḕn Melḗtou graphḗn, ou pollês moi dokeî eînai apologías, allà hikanà kaì taûta",
          "text": "ἀλλὰ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀδικῶ κατὰ τὴν Μελήτου γραφήν, οὐ πολλῆς μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ἀπολογίας, ἀλλὰ ἱκανὰ καὶ ταῦτα"
        },
        {
          "english": "because I am here for the defense of the gospel",
          "ref": "New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 1:16",
          "roman": "hóti eis apologían toû euangelíou keîmai",
          "text": "ὅτι εἰς ἀπολογίαν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου κεῖμαι"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a speech made in defense of something; apology"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "defense",
          "defense"
        ],
        [
          "apology",
          "apology"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Attic",
        "Koine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/a.po.lo.ɡí.aː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.lo.ɡí.aː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈɡi.a/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a.po.loˈʝi.a/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἀπολογία"
}