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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διάκονος (diákonos, “servant”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.aː.ko.ní.aː/ → /ði.a.koˈni.a/ → /ði.a.koˈni.a/
Noun
δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ • (diākoníā) f (genitive δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- service
- ministry
- body of servants
- instruments of service
Inflection
Further reading
- “διακονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διακονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διακονία 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
- διακονία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1248 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- διακονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.