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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὐχᾰ́ρῐστος (eukháristos, “thankful, grateful”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + χᾰ́ρῐς (kháris, “grace”) + -τος (-tos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.kʰa.ris.tí.aː/ → /eɸ.xa.risˈti.a/ → /ef.xa.risˈti.a/
Noun
εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ • (eukharistíā) f (genitive εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- thanks, gratitude
- giving of thanks, thanksgiving
- Eucharist
- gracefulness
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “εὐχαριστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐχαριστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐχαριστία 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
- G2169 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible