ἐλεημοσύνη
See also: ελεημοσύνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “pitiful, merciful”) + -σῠ́νη (-súnē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.le.e̝.moˈsy.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/
Noun
ἐλεημοσῠ́νη • (eleēmosúnē) f (genitive ἐλεημοσῠ́νης); first declension
- pity, mercy
- alms, charity
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη; τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη hē eleēmosúnē | τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosúnā | αἱ ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι hai eleēmosúnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης tês eleēmosúnēs | τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosúnain | τῶν ἐλεημοσῠνῶν tôn eleēmosunôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐλεημοσῠ́νῃ têi eleēmosúnēi | τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosúnain | ταῖς ἐλεημοσῠ́ναις taîs eleēmosúnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐλεημοσῠ́νην tḕn eleēmosúnēn | τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosúnā | τᾱ̀ς ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱς tā̀s eleēmosúnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐλεημοσῠ́νη eleēmosúnē | ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ eleēmosúnā | ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι eleēmosúnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ελεημοσύνη (eleïmosýni)
- → Latin: eleēmosyna (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλεημοσύνη 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
- ἐλεημοσύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1654 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible