βοήθεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βοηθέω (boēthéō, “to help, assist”), from βοηθόος (boēthóos, “heeding the call to arms, rushing to battle”, Homeric).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bo.ɛ̌ː.tʰeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /boˈe̝.tʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βoˈi.θi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /voˈi.θi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /voˈi.θi.a/
Noun
βοήθειᾰ • (boḗtheiă) f (genitive βοηθείᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βοήθειᾰ hē boḗtheiă |
τὼ βοηθείᾱ tṑ boētheíā |
αἱ βοήθειαι hai boḗtheiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βοηθείᾱς tês boētheíās |
τοῖν βοηθείαιν toîn boētheíain |
τῶν βοηθειῶν tôn boētheiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βοηθείᾳ tēî boētheíāi |
τοῖν βοηθείαιν toîn boētheíain |
ταῖς βοηθείαις taîs boētheíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βοήθειᾰν tḕn boḗtheiăn |
τὼ βοηθείᾱ tṑ boētheíā |
τᾱ̀ς βοηθείᾱς tā̀s boētheíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βοήθειᾰ boḗtheiă |
βοηθείᾱ boētheíā |
βοήθειαι boḗtheiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βοήθεια (voḯtheia)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βοηθόος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 224
Further reading
- “βοήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βοήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βοήθεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βοήθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βοήθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βοήθεια (boḗtheia, “help, aid, succour”).
Noun
βοήθεια • (voḯtheia) f (plural βοήθειες)
- help, assistance, aid, succour
- Synonym: αρωγή (arogí)
- δίνω τη βοήθειά μου ― díno ti voḯtheiá mou ― I give my help
- η βοήθειά τους ήταν σημαντική ― i voḯtheiá tous ítan simantikí ― their aid was important
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | βοήθεια (voḯtheia) | βοήθειες (voḯtheies) |
| genitive | βοήθειας (voḯtheias) | βοηθειών (voïtheión) |
| accusative | βοήθεια (voḯtheia) | βοήθειες (voḯtheies) |
| vocative | βοήθεια (voḯtheia) | βοήθειες (voḯtheies) |
Related terms
- αλληλοβοήθεια f (allilovoḯtheia, “mutual aid”)
- αυτοβοήθεια f (aftovoḯtheia, “self-help”)
- βοήθημα n (voḯthima, “assistance, relief”)
- βοηθητικά (voïthitiká, “supplementally, helpfully”)
- βοηθητικός (voïthitikós, “ancillary, auxiliary”)
- βοηθός m or f (voïthós, “helper”)
- βοηθώ (voïthó, “to help”)
- πρώτες βοήθειες f pl (prótes voḯtheies, “first aid”)
- πρώτων βοηθειών f pl (próton voïtheión, “first aid kit”)
Interjection
βοήθεια • (voḯtheia)
Further reading
- βοήθεια, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language