εὐφυΐα

See also: ευφυΐα

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 11 March 2016

From εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “to grow”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

εὐφῠΐᾱ • (euphŭḯā) f (genitive εὐφῠΐᾱς); first declension

natural goodness of growth or shape, shapeliness
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Surgery 742
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Solon 1
good natural parts, natural cleverness, genius, goodness
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Definitions 413D
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.7.17
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.6.15
1. (of places) fertility, favorable situation
  - 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 1.2.3, (compare Polybius, The Histories 2.68.5)

First declension of ἡ εὐφῠΐᾱ; τῆς εὐφῠΐᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐφῠΐᾱ hē euphŭḯā	τὼ εὐφῠΐᾱ tṑ euphŭḯā	αἱ εὐφῠΐαι hai euphŭḯai
Genitive	τῆς εὐφῠΐᾱς tês euphŭḯās	τοῖν εὐφῠΐαιν toîn euphŭḯain	τῶν εὐφῠϊῶν tôn euphŭïôn
Dative	τῇ εὐφῠΐᾳ tēî euphŭḯāi	τοῖν εὐφῠΐαιν toîn euphŭḯain	ταῖς εὐφῠΐαις taîs euphŭḯais
Accusative	τὴν εὐφῠΐᾱν tḕn euphŭḯān	τὼ εὐφῠΐᾱ tṑ euphŭḯā	τᾱ̀ς εὐφῠΐᾱς tā̀s euphŭḯās
Vocative	εὐφῠΐᾱ euphŭḯā	εὐφῠΐᾱ euphŭḯā	εὐφῠΐαι euphŭḯai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“εὐφυΐα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
εὐφυΐα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette