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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀξιοπρεπής (axioprepḗs) + -εια (-eia) (-ία (-ía)).
The word is not attested in classical Greek, but it is included in Lampe as part of the lexicon of the language of Late Antiquity. LBG (Trapp 2001) in addition cites the 9th-century Life of Constantine edited by Guidi (1907:319).
Noun
ἀξιοπρέπειᾰ • (axioprépeiă) f (genitive ἀξιοπρεπείᾱς); first declension (Byzantine)
- (Byzantine) propriety, dignity
Inflection
Further reading
- ἀξιοπρέπεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀξιοπρέπεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀξιοπρέπεια 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
- Wilhelm Pape, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache, vol. 1 (3rd ed. 1880), 270.
- Lampe, G. W. H. (1961) “ἀξιοπρέπεια”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 167b
- Trapp (ed.), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität vol. 1 (2001).
- M. Guidi, Un „bios“ di Costantino. Rendiconti Accad. dei Lincei, cl. mor., stor., filol., serie V, vol. XVI. Roma 1907, 304–340. 637–662.