θεοσέβεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
θεοσεβής (theosebḗs) + -ια (-ia), synchronically analyzable as θεοσεβής (theosebḗs) + -εια (-eia).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.o.sé.beː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe.oˈse.bi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.βi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/
Noun
θεοσέβειᾰ • (theosébeiă) f (genitive θεοσεβείᾱς); first declension
- religiousness, reverence for the divine
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ θεοσέβειᾰ hē theosébeiă |
τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā |
αἱ θεοσέβειαι hai theosébeiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς θεοσεβείᾱς tês theosebeíās |
τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain |
τῶν θεοσεβειῶν tôn theosebeiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ θεοσεβείᾳ tēî theosebeíāi |
τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain |
ταῖς θεοσεβείαις taîs theosebeíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν θεοσέβειᾰν tḕn theosébeiăn |
τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā |
τᾱ̀ς θεοσεβείᾱς tā̀s theosebeíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θεοσέβειᾰ theosébeiă |
θεοσεβείᾱ theosebeíā |
θεοσέβειαι theosébeiai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- εὐσέβεια f (eusébeia)
Antonyms
- ἀσέβεια f (asébeia)
- δυσσέβεια f (dussébeia)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Greek: θεοσέβεια (theoséveia) (learned)
Further reading
- “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θεοσέβεια 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.
- godliness idem, page 365.