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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the verb ἀγαπάω (agapáō, “to love”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡá.pɛː/ → /aˈɣa.pi/ → /aˈɣa.pi/
Noun
ᾰ̓γᾰ́πη • (ăgắpē) f (genitive ᾰ̓γᾰ́πης); first declension
- love, affection, esteem
- (Christianity) specifically, the love between God and humanity, good will, benevolence
- (Christianity, in the plural) Christian love feasts
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀγάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγάπη 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
- ἀγάπη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G26 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀγάπη 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