ὕπαρξις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑπάρχω (hupárkhō, “I begin, exist”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.park.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.park.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.park.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.park.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.park.sis/
Noun
ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς • (hŭ́părxĭs) f (genitive ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεως); third declension
- existence, reality
- (logic) existence
- (grammar) substantive
- (mathematics) positive term
- substance
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς hē hŭ́părxĭs |
τὼ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει tṑ hŭpắrxei |
αἱ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις hai hŭpắrxeis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεως tês hŭpắrxeōs |
τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰρξέοιν toîn hŭpărxéoin |
τῶν ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεων tôn hŭpắrxeōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει tēî hŭpắrxei |
τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰρξέοιν toîn hŭpărxéoin |
ταῖς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεσῐ / ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεσῐν taîs hŭpắrxesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐν tḕn hŭ́părxĭn |
τὼ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει tṑ hŭpắrxei |
τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις tā̀s hŭpắrxeis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐ hŭ́părxĭ |
ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει hŭpắrxei |
ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις hŭpắrxeis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- συνύπαρξις (sunúparxis)
Descendants
- Greek: ύπαρξη (ýparxi)
Further reading
- “ὕπαρξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕπαρξις 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
- G5223 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible