ἀσέβεια

See also: ασέβεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓σεβής (ăsebḗs, “impious”) +‎ -ια (-ia).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ • (ăsébeiă) f (genitive ᾰ̓σεβείᾱς); first declension

  1. impiety, ungodliness[1]
  2. (Late Antiquity) heresy[2]
    • Philostorgius, Church History §2.2:
      ...διὰ τῆς ἐν ταῖς μελῳδίαις ἡδονῆς ἐκκλέπτων πρὸς τὴν οἰκείαν ἀσέβειαν τοὺς ἀμαθεστέρους τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
      stealing, through their joy in his songs, the more foolish of men for his own heresy
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ; τῆς ᾰ̓σεβείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ
hē ăsébeiă 		τὼ ᾰ̓σεβείᾱ
tṑ ăsebeíā 		αἱ ᾰ̓σέβειαι
hai ăsébeiai
Genitive τῆς ᾰ̓σεβείᾱς
tês ăsebeíās 		τοῖν ᾰ̓σεβείαιν
toîn ăsebeíain 		τῶν ᾰ̓σεβειῶν
tôn ăsebeiôn
Dative τῇ ᾰ̓σεβείᾳ
tēî ăsebeíāi 		τοῖν ᾰ̓σεβείαιν
toîn ăsebeíain 		ταῖς ᾰ̓σεβείαις
taîs ăsebeíais
Accusative τὴν ᾰ̓σέβειᾰν
tḕn ăsébeiăn 		τὼ ᾰ̓σεβείᾱ
tṑ ăsebeíā 		τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓σεβείᾱς
tā̀s ăsebeíās
Vocative ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ
ăsébeiă 		ᾰ̓σεβείᾱ
ăsebeíā 		ᾰ̓σέβειαι
ăsébeiai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

Descendants

  • Greek: ασέβεια (aséveia)

References

  1. ^ Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), p. 255.
  2. ^ See G. W. H. Lampe, ed., A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), p. 242

Further reading

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