εὐδαιμονία

See also: ευδαιμονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn, “fortunate”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, “feminine abstract substantive”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ • (eudaimonĭ́ā) f (genitive εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

  1. happiness, well-being
  2. (ethics) Eudaimonia (in Aristotelian ethics, a condition of living a life of the highest virtue; the state of human flourishing, which is desirable in and of itself, rather than as a means towards some other end)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ
hē eudaimonĭ́ā 		τὼ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ
tṑ eudaimonĭ́ā 		αἱ εὐδαιμονῐ́αι
hai eudaimonĭ́ai
Genitive τῆς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς
tês eudaimonĭ́ās 		τοῖν εὐδαιμονῐ́αιν
toîn eudaimonĭ́ain 		τῶν εὐδαιμονῐῶν
tôn eudaimonĭôn
Dative τῇ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾳ
tēî eudaimonĭ́āi 		τοῖν εὐδαιμονῐ́αιν
toîn eudaimonĭ́ain 		ταῖς εὐδαιμονῐ́αις
taîs eudaimonĭ́ais
Accusative τὴν εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱν
tḕn eudaimonĭ́ān 		τὼ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ
tṑ eudaimonĭ́ā 		τᾱ̀ς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς
tā̀s eudaimonĭ́ās
Vocative εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ
eudaimonĭ́ā 		εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ
eudaimonĭ́ā 		εὐδαιμονῐ́αι
eudaimonĭ́ai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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