θεραπεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “to heal”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.ra.pěː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe.raˈpi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/
Noun
θερᾰπείᾱ • (therapeíā) f (genitive θερᾰπείᾱς); first declension
- a waiting on service
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.16
- medical treatment
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θερᾰπείᾱ; τῆς θερᾰπείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θερᾰπείᾱ hē therapeíā | τὼ θερᾰπείᾱ tṑ therapeíā | αἱ θερᾰπεῖαι hai therapeîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θερᾰπείᾱς tês therapeíās | τοῖν θερᾰπείαιν toîn therapeíain | τῶν θερᾰπειῶν tôn therapeiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θερᾰπείᾳ têi therapeíāi | τοῖν θερᾰπείαιν toîn therapeíain | ταῖς θερᾰπείαις taîs therapeíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θερᾰπείᾱν tḕn therapeíān | τὼ θερᾰπείᾱ tṑ therapeíā | τᾱ̀ς θερᾰπείᾱς tā̀s therapeíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θερᾰπείᾱ therapeíā | θερᾰπείᾱ therapeíā | θερᾰπεῖαι therapeîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Catalan: teràpia
- → Danish: terapi
- → Dutch: therapie
- → Indonesian: terapi
- → French: thérapie
- → Norwegian Bokmål: terapi
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: terapi
- → Romanian: terapie
- → Turkish: terapi
- → German: Therapie
- → Georgian: თერაპია (teraṗia)
- → Greek: θεραπεία (therapeía) (learned)
- → Italian: terapia
- → Maltese: terapija
- → Latin: therapīa
- → English: therapy
- → Finnish: terapia
- → Hungarian: terápia
- → Norwegian Bokmål: terapi
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: terapi
- → Ukrainian: терапія (terapija)
- → Latvian: terapija
- → Spanish: terapia
Further reading
- “θεραπεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θεραπεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θεραπεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2322 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.
- address idem, page 11.
- adoration idem, page 13.
- advance idem, page 13.
- attendance idem, page 51.
- attention idem, page 51.
- canvass idem, page 111.
- care idem, page 113.
- courting idem, page 179.
- deference idem, page 205.
- devotion idem, page 221.
- dressing idem, page 252.
- heed idem, page 394.
- homage idem, page 403.
- honour idem, page 404.
- hygiene idem, page 412.
- medical idem, page 521.
- ministration idem, page 531.
- nursing idem, page 563.
- regard idem, page 686.
- respect idem, page 703.
- reverence idem, page 709.
- service idem, page 755.
- superintendence idem, page 839.
- superstition idem, page 839.
- supervision idem, page 840.
- tendance idem, page 861.
- treatment idem, page 892.
- veneration idem, page 946.
- worship idem, page 990.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θe.ɾaˈpi.a/
- Hyphenation: θε‧ρα‧πεί‧α
Noun
θεραπεία • (therapeía) f (plural θεραπείες)
- (medicine) cure, therapy, remedy
Declension
declension of θεραπεία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | θεραπεία • | θεραπείες • |
genitive | θεραπείας • | θεραπειών • |
accusative | θεραπεία • | θεραπείες • |
vocative | θεραπεία • | θεραπείες • |
Synonyms
- γιατρειά f (giatreiá) (colloquial)
Derived terms
- ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία f (ilektrospasmotherapeía, “electroconvulsive therapy”)
- ηλιοθεραπεία f (iliotherapeía, “heliotherapy, sun tanning”)
- -θεραπεία (-therapeía) (used with compound terms)
- Μονάδα Εντατική Θεραπείας f (Monáda Entatikí Therapeías, “Intensive Care Unit”)
Related terms
- see: θεραπεύω (therapévo, “cure”)