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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾱ̓θᾰ́νᾰτος (āthánatos, “undying”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix). The τ (t) changed to σ (s) by palatalization.
Noun
ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (āthanasíā) f (genitive ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- immortality
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἀθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀθανασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀθανασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G110 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀθανασία 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.