μακάριος

μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).^[1]

μακάριος • (makários) m (feminine μακαρία, neuter μακάριον); first/second declension

1. (mostly of men) blessed, happy
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.61
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 86
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 354A
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1.10.14–16
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Demiurge 2, (compare Monostiches 357)
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 309C
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 432D
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 186, (compare The Wasps 1512)
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 303C
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1292
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.39
   1. (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 335E, (compare Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.5.3, Aristotle, Politics 7.1.4)
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 71A
      • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Harp-Player 1.6
   2. (of the dead)
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 947D, (compare Aristophanes, Fragments 445)
   3. (of states, qualities, and the like)
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1208
      • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 327

• → Coptic: ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ (makarios)
• → Greek: μακάριος (makários) (learned)
• Greek: μακάρι (makári) (see there for further descendants)

• “μακάριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μακάριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μακάριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μακάριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3107 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• μακάριος 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.
  • blessed idem, page 83.
  • blissful idem, page 84.
  • fortunate idem, page 340.
  • happy idem, page 384.
  • joyful idem, page 464.
  • prosperous idem, page 653.
  • successful idem, page 834.
• “μακάριος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /maˈka.ɾi.os/
• Hyphenation: μα‧κά‧ρι‧ος

μακάριος • (makários) m (feminine μακάρια, neuter μακάριο)

1. blissful (extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss)

   μακάρια άγνοια (ironic) ― makária ágnoia ― blissful ignorance

2. (dated) blessed (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing)

   Synonym: ευλογημένος (evlogiménos)