θυσία
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From θύω (thúō, “I sacrifice”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰy.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰyˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θyˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θyˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θiˈsi.a/
Noun
θῠσῐ́ᾱ • (thŭsĭ́ā) f (genitive θῠσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ θῠσῐ́ᾱ hē thŭsĭ́ā |
τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thŭsĭ́ā |
αἱ θῠσῐ́αι hai thŭsĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tês thŭsĭ́ās |
τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thŭsĭ́ain |
τῶν θῠσῐῶν tôn thŭsĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ θῠσῐ́ᾳ têi thŭsĭ́āi |
τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thŭsĭ́ain |
ταῖς θῠσῐ́αις taîs thŭsĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν θῠσῐ́ᾱν tḕn thŭsĭ́ān |
τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thŭsĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thŭsĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θῠσῐ́ᾱ thŭsĭ́ā |
θῠσῐ́ᾱ thŭsĭ́ā |
θῠσῐ́αι thŭsĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- θυηλή (thuēlḗ)
- θῦμα (thûma)
- θυο-σκόος (thuo-skóos)
- θύσθλα (thústhla)
- θυσιαστήριον (thusiastḗrion)
- θύσιμος (thúsimos)
- θυστάς (thustás)
- θυτήρ (thutḗr)
Descendants
References
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θυσία 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
- “θυσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2378 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Noun
θυσία • (thysía) f (plural θυσίες)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | θυσία (thysía) | θυσίες (thysíes) |
| genitive | θυσίας (thysías) | θυσιών (thysión) |
| accusative | θυσία (thysía) | θυσίες (thysíes) |
| vocative | θυσία (thysía) | θυσίες (thysíes) |
Related terms
- αθυσίαστος (athysíastos, “unsacrificed”, adjective)
- ανθρωποθυσία f (anthropothysía, “human sacrifice”)
- αυτοθυσία f (aftothysía, “self-sacrifice”)
- αυτοθυσιάζομαι (aftothysiázomai, “to self-sacrifice”)
- θυσιάζω (thysiázo, “to sacrifice”)
- θυσιαστήριος (thysiastírios, “sacrificial”, adjective)
Further reading
θυσία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- “θυσία”, in Platform to search dictionaries of modern and medieval Greek at the Centre for the Greek language
