λειτουργία

See also: λειτουργιά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ληϊτουργῐ́ᾱ (lēïtourgíā)
λῃτουργῐ́ᾱ (lēitourgíā)
λητουργῐ́ᾱ (lētourgíā) (early Attic)

Etymology

From λειτουργός (leitourgós, “public servant”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /leː.tuːr.ɡí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /li.turˈɡi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /li.turˈʝi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /li.turˈʝi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /li.turˈʝi.a/

Noun

λειτουργῐ́ᾱ • (leitourgíā) f (genitive λειτουργῐ́ᾱς); first declension (Attic, Koine)

public service
(religion) ministration

Declension

First declension of ἡ λειτουργῐ́ᾱ; τῆς λειτουργῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λειτουργῐ́ᾱ hē leitourgíā	τὼ λειτουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ leitourgíā	αἱ λειτουργῐ́αι hai leitourgíai
Genitive	τῆς λειτουργῐ́ᾱς tês leitourgíās	τοῖν λειτουργῐ́αιν toîn leitourgíain	τῶν λειτουργῐῶν tôn leitourgiôn
Dative	τῇ λειτουργῐ́ᾳ têi leitourgíāi	τοῖν λειτουργῐ́αιν toîn leitourgíain	ταῖς λειτουργῐ́αις taîs leitourgíais
Accusative	τὴν λειτουργῐ́ᾱν tḕn leitourgíān	τὼ λειτουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ leitourgíā	τᾱ̀ς λειτουργῐ́ᾱς tā̀s leitourgíās
Vocative	λειτουργῐ́ᾱ leitourgíā	λειτουργῐ́ᾱ leitourgíā	λειτουργῐ́αι leitourgíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: λειτουργία (leitourgía)
→ Latin: lītūrgia
- Catalan: litúrgia
- → Dutch: liturgie
- → English: liturgy
- → Esperanto: liturgio
- → Finnish: liturgia
- French: liturgie
- Friulian: liturgjie
- Galician: liturxia
- → German: Liturgie
- → Hungarian: liturgia
- Italian: liturgia
- Ladino: liturjia
- Norman: litourgie
- → Norwegian Bokmål: liturgi
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: liturgi
- Occitan: liturgia
- Piedmontese: liturgìa
- → Polish: liturgia
- → Portuguese: liturgia (learned)
- Spanish: liturgia
- Venetan: łiturzia

References

“λειτουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía, “public service”), from λειτουργός (leitourgós, “public official”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Noun

λειτουργία • (leitourgía) f (plural λειτουργίες)

(religion) liturgy, Mass, Eucharist, divine service
function, operation, service, working(s)
ώρες λειτουργίας ― óres leitourgías ― working hours

βιολογική λειτουργία ― viologikí leitourgía ― biological function

Declension

Declension of λειτουργία

	singular	plural
nominative	λειτουργία •	λειτουργίες •
genitive	λειτουργίας •	λειτουργιών •
accusative	λειτουργία •	λειτουργίες •
vocative	λειτουργία •	λειτουργίες •

Coordinate terms

εκκλησιασμός m (ekklisiasmós, “attendance at worship”)
θρησκευτική τελετή f (thriskeftikí teletí, “religious ceremony”)

Related terms

αλειτούργητος (aleitoúrgitos, “unconsecrated”)
απολείτουργα (apoleítourga, “after Eucharist”, adverb)
απολειτουργώ (apoleitourgó, “Ι complete the liturgy”)
λειτουργικός (leitourgikós, “functional”)
λειτουργός m or f (leitourgós, “public official”)
λειτουργώ (leitourgó, “to function”)

λειτουργία

Contents

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

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