εὐβουλία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὔβουλος (eúboulos) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.buː.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ew.buˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eβ.βuˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ev.vuˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ev.vuˈli.a/
Noun
εὐβουλίᾱ • (euboulíā) f (genitive εὐβουλίᾱς); first declension
- good counsel, discretion
Inflection
First declension of ἡ εὐβουλίᾱ; τῆς εὐβουλίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ εὐβουλίᾱ hē euboulíā | τὼ εὐβουλίᾱ tṑ euboulíā | αἱ εὐβουλίαι hai euboulíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς εὐβουλίᾱς tês euboulíās | τοῖν εὐβουλίαιν toîn euboulíain | τῶν εὐβουλιῶν tôn eubouliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ εὐβουλίᾳ têi euboulíāi | τοῖν εὐβουλίαιν toîn euboulíain | ταῖς εὐβουλίαις taîs euboulíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν εὐβουλίᾱν tḕn euboulíān | τὼ εὐβουλίᾱ tṑ euboulíā | τᾱ̀ς εὐβουλίᾱς tā̀s euboulíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | εὐβουλίᾱ euboulíā | εὐβουλίᾱ euboulíā | εὐβουλίαι euboulíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ευβουλία (evvoulía)
Further reading
- “εὐβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐβουλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- discretion idem, page 231.
- judgment idem, page 465.
- judiciousness idem, page 465.
- policy idem, page 624.
- prudence idem, page 655.
- sense idem, page 752.
- thoughtfulness idem, page 868.
- wisdom idem, page 982.