αὐτάρκεια
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- αὐταρκείη (autarkeíē), αὐταρκίη (autarkíē) — Ionic
Etymology
From αὐτάρκης (autárkēs, “self-sufficient”) + -ιᾰ (-iă, abstract noun suffix), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + ἀρκέω (arkéō, “to suffice”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.tár.keː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aʍˈtar.ki.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aɸˈtar.ci.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /afˈtar.ci.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /afˈtar.ci.a/
Noun
αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ • (autắrkeiă) f (genitive αὐτᾰρκείᾱς); first declension
- self-sufficiency, independence, self-rule; autarky, autarchy
- contentment, satisfaction with one's resources
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ hē autắrkeiă |
τὼ αὐτᾰρκείᾱ tṑ autărkeíā |
αἱ αὐτᾰ́ρκειαι hai autắrkeiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αὐτᾰρκείᾱς tês autărkeíās |
τοῖν αὐτᾰρκείαιν toîn autărkeíain |
τῶν αὐτᾰρκειῶν tôn autărkeiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αὐτᾰρκείᾳ tēî autărkeíāi |
τοῖν αὐτᾰρκείαιν toîn autărkeíain |
ταῖς αὐτᾰρκείαις taîs autărkeíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰν tḕn autắrkeiăn |
τὼ αὐτᾰρκείᾱ tṑ autărkeíā |
τᾱ̀ς αὐτᾰρκείᾱς tā̀s autărkeíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ autắrkeiă |
αὐτᾰρκείᾱ autărkeíā |
αὐτᾰ́ρκειαι autắrkeiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Belarusian: аўтаркі́я (aŭtarkíja)
- → Catalan: autarquia
- → Czech: autarkie
- → Dutch: autarkie
- → Indonesian: autarki
- → English: autarky, autarchy
- → Esperanto: aŭtarkio
- → Estonian: autarkia
- → Finnish: autarkia
- → French: autarcie
- → German: Autarkie
- → Occitan: autarquia
- → Polish: autarkia
- → Portuguese: autarcia
- → Greek: αυτάρκεια (aftárkeia) (learned)
- → Russian: авта́рки́я (avtárkíja)
- → Spanish: autarcía, autarquía
- → Ukrainian: авта́ркі́я (avtárkíja)
See also
- αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, autocracy, sovereignty, autarchy”)
Further reading
- “αὐτάρκεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐτάρκεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐτάρκεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- αὐτάρκεια 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- independence idem, page 432.
- self-sufficiency idem, page 751.