ἐξουσία
See also: εξουσία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξοντ- (exont-, participle) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, verbal adjective suffix), from ἔξεστι (éxesti, “it is possible, it is allowed”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ek.suː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ek.suˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ek.suˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ek.suˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ek.suˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ • (exousĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- power, means, license, or authority to do something.
- power, authority
- office, title
- means, resources
- pomp
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ hē exousĭ́ā |
τὼ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ exousĭ́ā |
αἱ ἐξουσῐ́αι hai exousĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς tês exousĭ́ās |
τοῖν ἐξουσῐ́αιν toîn exousĭ́ain |
τῶν ἐξουσῐῶν tôn exousĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐξουσῐ́ᾳ tēî exousĭ́āi |
τοῖν ἐξουσῐ́αιν toîn exousĭ́ain |
ταῖς ἐξουσῐ́αις taîs exousĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐξουσῐ́ᾱν tḕn exousĭ́ān |
τὼ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ exousĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s exousĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ exousĭ́ā |
ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ exousĭ́ā |
ἐξουσῐ́αι exousĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐξουσία 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
- G1849 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.
- authorisation idem, page 53.
- authority idem, page 53.
- competence idem, page 151.
- connivance idem, page 161.
- consent idem, page 162.
- control idem, page 170.
- facility idem, page 300.
- faculty idem, page 301.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- immunity idem, page 418.
- jurisdiction idem, page 466.
- latitude idem, page 478.
- leave idem, page 483.
- liberty idem, page 488.
- licence idem, page 488.
- might idem, page 528.
- power idem, page 630.
- sanction idem, page 733.
- scope idem, page 740.
- strength idem, page 824.
- sufferance idem, page 835.
- toleration idem, page 880.
- warrant idem, page 964.
- ἐξουσία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011