hypostas
Swedish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis).
Noun
hypostas c
- (theology) hypostasis (any of the three persons of the Holy Trinity)
- Synonym: person
- 1862, Viktor Rydberg, Bibelns lära om Kristus[1], Handelstidningens bolags tryckeri, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 29 March 2025, page 94:
- Det var sannerligen icke Jesus, utan kyrkomötena, som [...] [gav oss] treenigheten [...] och dess tre hypostaser.
- It was certainly not Jesus, but the church councils, that gave us the Trinity and its three hypostases.
- 2010, Lars Cavallin, transl., Katolska kyrkans katekes[2], Catholica, archived from the original on 20 November 2023, §252:
- Kyrkan använder [...] begreppet "person" eller "hypostas" för att beteckna Fadern, Sonen och den helige Ande.
- The Church uses the term "person" or "hypostasis" to designate the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hypostas | hypostas |
| definite | hypostasen | hypostasens | |
| plural | indefinite | hypostaser | hypostasers |
| definite | hypostaserna | hypostasernas |