ἐλευθερία
See also: ελευθερία
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.leu̯.tʰe.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.leʍ.tʰeˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.leɸ.θeˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.lef.θeˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.lef.θeˈri.a/
Etymology 1
From ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, “free”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Alternative forms
- ἐλευθερῐ́η (eleutherĭ́ē) — Ionic
Noun
ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ • (eleutherĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- freedom, liberty
- Ἐλευθερία ἢ Θάνατος.
- Eleuthería ḕ Thánatos.
- Freedom or Death.
- manumission
- license
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ hē eleutherĭ́ā |
τὼ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ tṑ eleutherĭ́ā |
αἱ ἐλευθερῐ́αι hai eleutherĭ́ai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς tês eleutherĭ́ās |
τοῖν ἐλευθερῐ́αιν toîn eleutherĭ́ain |
τῶν ἐλευθερῐῶν tôn eleutherĭôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾳ tēî eleutherĭ́āi |
τοῖν ἐλευθερῐ́αιν toîn eleutherĭ́ain |
ταῖς ἐλευθερῐ́αις taîs eleutherĭ́ais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱν tḕn eleutherĭ́ān |
τὼ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ tṑ eleutherĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eleutherĭ́ās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ eleutherĭ́ā |
ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ eleutherĭ́ā |
ἐλευθερῐ́αι eleutherĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ελευθερία (elefthería)
Etymology 2
Noun
ἐλευθερία • (eleuthería)
- inflection of ἐλευθερῐ́η (eleutherĭ́ē):
- nominative dual
- accusative dual
- vocative dual
References
- “ἐλευθερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλευθερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλευθερία 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
- ἐλευθερία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἐλευθερία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1657 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.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- independence idem, page 432.
- liberty idem, page 488.