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Ancient Greek
Etymology
γενναῖος (gennaîos) + -της (-tēs)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡen.nai̯.ó.tɛːs/ → /ʝen.nɛˈo.tis/ → /ʝe.neˈo.tis/
Noun
γενναιότης • (gennaiótēs) f (genitive γενναιότητος); third declension
- nobility (of mind)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “γενναιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γενναιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γενναιότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- great-heartedness idem, page 372.
- great-mindedness idem, page 372.
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- heroism idem, page 398.
- high birth idem, page 399.
- high mindedness idem, page 399.
- large-mindedness idem, page 476.
- liberality idem, page 488.
- magnanimity idem, page 507.
- nobility idem, page 559.
- rank idem, page 671.