ἐπιληψία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.pi.le̝pˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐπῐληψίᾱ • (epĭlēpsíā) f (genitive ἐπῐληψίᾱς); first declension
- alternative form of ἐπίληψις (epílēpsis)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐπῐληψίᾱ hē epĭlēpsíā |
τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epĭlēpsíā |
αἱ ἐπῐληψίαι hai epĭlēpsíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tês epĭlēpsíās |
τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epĭlēpsíain |
τῶν ἐπῐληψιῶν tôn epĭlēpsiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπῐληψίᾳ tēî epĭlēpsíāi |
τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epĭlēpsíain |
ταῖς ἐπῐληψίαις taîs epĭlēpsíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐπῐληψίᾱν tḕn epĭlēpsíān |
τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epĭlēpsíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tā̀s epĭlēpsíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπῐληψίᾱ epĭlēpsíā |
ἐπῐληψίᾱ epĭlēpsíā |
ἐπῐληψίαι epĭlēpsíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: επιληψία (epilipsía)
- → Asturian: epilepsia
- → Czech: epilepsie
- → Danish: epilepsi
- → Dutch: epilepsie
- → English: epilepsy
- → Esperanto: epilepsio
- → Finnish: epilepsia
- → Middle French: epilepsie
- → German: Epilepsie
- → Hungarian: epilepszia
- → Norwegian Bokmål: epilepsi
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: epilepsi
- → Polish: epilepsja
- → Portuguese: epilepsia
- → Romanian: epilepsie
- → Russian: эпиле́псия (epilépsija)
- → Slovak: epilepsia
- → Spanish: epilepsia
- → Swedish: epilepsi
Further reading
- ἐπιληψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐπιληψία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐπιληψία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press