ἀριστεία
See also: αριστεία and ἀριστεῖα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀριστεύω (aristeúō, “to be best”) + -εία (-eía, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ris.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.risˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.risˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.risˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.risˈti.a/
Noun
ἀριστείᾱ • (aristeíā) f (genitive ἀριστείᾱς); first declension
- excellence, prowess. Book five of the Iliad is called Διομήδους ἀριστεία.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱ hē ărĭsteíā |
τὼ ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱ tṑ ărĭsteíā |
αἱ ᾰ̓ρῐστεῖαι hai ărĭsteîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱς tês ărĭsteíās |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῐστείαιν toîn ărĭsteíain |
τῶν ᾰ̓ρῐστειῶν tôn ărĭsteiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾳ tēî ărĭsteíāi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῐστείαιν toîn ărĭsteíain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓ρῐστείαις taîs ărĭsteíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱν tḕn ărĭsteíān |
τὼ ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱ tṑ ărĭsteíā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱς tā̀s ărĭsteíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱ ărĭsteíā |
ᾰ̓ρῐστείᾱ ărĭsteíā |
ᾰ̓ρῐστεῖαι ărĭsteîai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀριστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀριστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀριστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀριστεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G225 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- prowess idem, page 655.