θυσία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θῠσῐ́η (thusíē) – Ionic
Etymology
From θύω (thúō, “I sacrifice”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰy.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰyˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θyˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θyˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θiˈsi.a/
Noun
θῠσῐ́ᾱ • (thusíā) f (genitive θῠσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- offering, sacrifice, a sacrificing
- victim, offering
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θῠσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς θῠσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θῠσῐ́ᾱ hē thusíā | τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thusíā | αἱ θῠσῐ́αι hai thusíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tês thusíās | τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thusíain | τῶν θῠσῐῶν tôn thusiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θῠσῐ́ᾳ têi thusíāi | τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thusíain | ταῖς θῠσῐ́αις taîs thusíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θῠσῐ́ᾱν tḕn thusíān | τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thusíā | τᾱ̀ς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thusíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠσῐ́ᾱ thusíā | θῠσῐ́ᾱ thusíā | θῠσῐ́αι thusíai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- θυηλή (thuēlḗ)
- θῦμα (thûma)
- θυο-σκόος (thuo-skóos)
- θύσθλα (thústhla)
- θυσιαστήριον (thusiastḗrion)
- θύσιμος (thúsimos)
- θυστάς (thustás)
- θυτήρ (thutḗr)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲑⲩⲥⲓⲁ (thusia)
- Greek: θυσία (thysía)
References
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θυσία 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
- “θυσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2378 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.
- festival idem, page 316.
- hecatomb idem, page 394.
- holiday idem, page 403.
- ovation idem, page 584.
- sacrifice idem, page 729.
- thanksgiving idem, page 863.
- triumph idem, page 896.
Greek
Noun
θυσία • (thysía) f (plural θυσίες)
- sacrifice
Declension
declension of θυσία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | θυσία • | θυσίες • |
genitive | θυσίας • | θυσιών • |
accusative | θυσία • | θυσίες • |
vocative | θυσία • | θυσίες • |
Related terms
- θυσιάζω (thysiázo, “to sacrifice”)
- θυσιαστήριος (thysiastírios, “sacrificial”)
- αθυσίαστος (athysíastos, “unsacrificed”)