ἐλπίς

See also: Ἐλπίς

Ancient Greek

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welp- (“to hope, expect”), like ἔλπω (élpō, “I cause to hope”).^[1]

ἐλπῐ́ς • (elpĭ́s) f (genitive ἐλπῐ́δος); third declension

hope, expectation, belief that something will happen
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 644c:
  πρὸς δὲ τούτοιν ἀμφοῖν αὖ δόξας μελλόντων, οἷν κοινὸν μὲν ὄνομα ἐλπίς, ἴδιον δέ, φόβος μὲν ἡ πρὸ λύπης ἐλπίς, θάρρος δὲ ἡ πρὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου
  pròs dè toútoin amphoîn aû dóxas mellóntōn, hoîn koinòn mèn ónoma elpís, ídion dé, phóbos mèn hē prò lúpēs elpís, thárrhos dè hē prò toû enantíou
  in addition to both of these, [each of us] also [possesses] opinions about things that will happen, for which the usual name is "expectation", and a particular [name]: the expectation before pain is fear, while [expectation] before the opposite is courage
object of hope
anxiety, boding

Third declension of ἡ ἐλπῐ́ς; τῆς ἐλπῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλπῐ́ς hē elpĭ́s	τὼ ἐλπῐ́δε tṑ elpĭ́de	αἱ ἐλπῐ́δες hai elpĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ἐλπῐ́δος tês elpĭ́dos	τοῖν ἐλπῐ́δοιν toîn elpĭ́doin	τῶν ἐλπῐ́δων tôn elpĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἐλπῐ́δῐ tēî elpĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ἐλπῐ́δοιν toîn elpĭ́doin	ταῖς ἐλπῐ́σῐ / ἐλπῐ́σῐν taîs elpĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐλπῐ́δᾰ tḕn elpĭ́dă	τὼ ἐλπῐ́δε tṑ elpĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ἐλπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s elpĭ́dăs
Vocative	ἐλπῐ́ elpĭ́	ἐλπῐ́δε elpĭ́de	ἐλπῐ́δες elpĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔλπομαι (> DER > ἐλπίς, -ίδος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 415

“ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἐλπίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐλπίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἐλπίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1680 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.
- anticipation idem, page 32.
- aspiration idem, page 45.
- comfort idem, page 145.
- expectation idem, page 293.
- hope idem, page 405.
- hopefulness idem, page 405.
- promise idem, page 653.
- prospect idem, page 653.
- solace idem, page 792.
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