οὐσία
See also: ουσία
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 6 November 2014
Alternative forms
- οὐσίη (ousíē) – Ionic
- ἐσσία (essía), ὠσία (ōsía) – Doric
Etymology
From ὤν, οὖσᾰ, ὄν (ṓn, oûsa, ón, “being”), the present participle of εἰμῐ́ (eimí) (“to be”), + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
Noun
οὐσίᾱ • (ousíā) f (genitive οὐσίᾱς); first declension
- that which is one's own, one's substance, property
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 911
- 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 337
- 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1253
- 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 729
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias 17
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 551B
- 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 74
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension 11
- 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, Collected Works 32.7
- Anaxipp. 1.32
- 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 118
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Diogeiton 4
- (philosophy) Synonym of φύσις (phúsis) stable being, immutable reality
- 470 BCE – 385 BCE, Philolaus, Collected Works 11
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 359A–B
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 646A.25
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 6.1.1
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 29C
- 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 232C
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 966E
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 641B.32
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1003B.7
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 185C
- substance, essence
- 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 11A
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1003B.7
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 83A.24
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 643A.27
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 402A.8
- true nature of that which is a member of a kind
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 92D
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 90B.30
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 509B
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 245E
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1017B.22
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1031A.1
- the possession of such a nature, substantiality
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 509B
- (in the concrete) the primary real, the substratum underlying all change and process in nature
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 208
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 298A.29
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1017B.10
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 298B.3
- 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 246A
- (logic) substance as the leading category
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 1B.26
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1045B.29
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 2B.5
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 2A.15
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1035B.29
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1043A.30
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 412A.16
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1037A.5
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 412A.19
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1035B.15
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 87A.36
- (various uses after Plato and Aristotle)
- Zeno, Stoic 1.24
- Polystr. 12
- 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 2.4.5
- 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 2.6.1
- 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 4.7.8
- 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.1.2
- Pythagorean name for I
- Theol., Ar. 6
- name of a plaster
- Aet. 15.15.45
- a fire-resisting substance
- Zosimus, Alch. 168B
- (in magic) a material thing by which a connection is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent
Inflection
First declension of ἡ οὐσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς οὐσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ οὐσῐ́ᾱ hē ousíā | τὼ οὐσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ousíā | αἱ οὐσῐ́αι hai ousíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς οὐσῐ́ᾱς tês ousíās | τοῖν οὐσῐ́αιν toîn ousíain | τῶν οὐσῐῶν tôn ousiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ οὐσῐ́ᾳ têi ousíāi | τοῖν οὐσῐ́αιν toîn ousíain | ταῖς οὐσῐ́αις taîs ousíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν οὐσῐ́ᾱν tḕn ousíān | τὼ οὐσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ousíā | τᾱ̀ς οὐσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ousíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐσῐ́ᾱ ousíā | οὐσῐ́ᾱ ousíā | οὐσῐ́αι ousíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ουσία (ousía)
References
- “οὐσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3776 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- οὐσία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- affair idem, page 16.
- being idem, page 72.
- competence idem, page 151.
- essence idem, page 283.
- existence idem, page 292.
- fortune idem, page 340.
- inheritance idem, page 440.
- possession idem, page 628.
- property idem, page 653.
- reality idem, page 676.
- substance idem, page 832.