ψυχικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “breath, spirit”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psyː.kʰi.kós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psy.kʰiˈkos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psy.çiˈkos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psy.çiˈkos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psi.çiˈkos/

Adjective

ψῡχῐκός • (psūkhĭkós) m (feminine ψῡχῐκή, neuter ψῡχῐκόν); first/second declension

of or relating to life or the soul
concerned only with the life or animal qualities, as opposed with spiritual concerns

Inflection

First and second declension of ψῡχῐκός; ψῡχῐκή; ψῡχῐκόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ψῡχῐκός psūkhĭkós	ψῡχῐκή psūkhĭkḗ	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhĭkón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhĭkā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκοί psūkhĭkoí	ψῡχῐκαί psūkhĭkaí	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhĭkắ
Genitive	ψῡχῐκοῦ psūkhĭkoû	ψῡχῐκῆς psūkhĭkês	ψῡχῐκοῦ psūkhĭkoû	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhĭkoîn	ψῡχῐκαῖν psūkhĭkaîn	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhĭkoîn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhĭkôn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhĭkôn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhĭkôn
Dative	ψῡχῐκῷ psūkhĭkôi	ψῡχῐκῇ psūkhĭkêi	ψῡχῐκῷ psūkhĭkôi	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhĭkoîn	ψῡχῐκαῖν psūkhĭkaîn	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhĭkoîn	ψῡχῐκοῖς psūkhĭkoîs	ψῡχῐκαῖς psūkhĭkaîs	ψῡχῐκοῖς psūkhĭkoîs
Accusative	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhĭkón	ψῡχῐκήν psūkhĭkḗn	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhĭkón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhĭkā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκούς psūkhĭkoús	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ς psūkhĭkā́s	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhĭkắ
Vocative	ψῡχῐκέ psūkhĭké	ψῡχῐκή psūkhĭkḗ	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhĭkón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhĭkā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhĭkṓ	ψῡχῐκοί psūkhĭkoí	ψῡχῐκαί psūkhĭkaí	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhĭkắ
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ψῡχῐκῶς psūkhĭkôs			ψῡχῐκώτερος psūkhĭkṓteros			ψῡχῐκώτᾰτος psūkhĭkṓtătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: психика (psihika)
→ Georgian: ფსიქიკა (psikiḳa)
→ Latin: psȳchicus
- → English: psychic
- → French: psychique
- → Polish: psychika
- → Romanian: psihic
→ Russian: психика (psixika)

References

“ψυχικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ψυχικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ψυχικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G5591 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.
- spiritual idem, page 802.