θεοσέβεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
θεοσεβής (theosebḗs) + -εια (-eia)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.o.sé.beː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe.oˈse.bi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.βi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/
Noun
θεοσέβειᾰ • (theosébeia) f (genitive θεοσεβείᾱς); first declension
- religiousness, reverence for the divine
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θεοσέβειᾰ; τῆς θεοσεβείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θεοσέβειᾰ hē theosébeia | τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā | αἱ θεοσέβειαι hai theosébeiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θεοσεβείᾱς tês theosebeíās | τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain | τῶν θεοσεβειῶν tôn theosebeiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θεοσεβείᾳ têi theosebeíāi | τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain | ταῖς θεοσεβείαις taîs theosebeíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θεοσέβειᾰν tḕn theosébeian | τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā | τᾱ̀ς θεοσεβείᾱς tā̀s theosebeíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θεοσέβειᾰ theosébeia | θεοσεβείᾱ theosebeíā | θεοσέβειαι theosébeiai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- εὐσέβεια f (eusébeia)
Antonyms
- ἀσέβεια f (asébeia)
- δυσσέβεια f (dussébeia)
Related terms
- see: θεός m (theós) and σέβας n (sébas)
Descendants
- → Greek: θεοσέβεια (theoséveia) (learned)
Further reading
- “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θεοσέβεια 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.
- godliness idem, page 365.