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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”) + -εια (-eia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.tʰé.neː.a/ → /asˈθe.ni.a/ → /asˈθe.ni.a/
Noun
ἀσθένεια • (asthéneia) f (genitive ἀσθενείᾱς); first declension
- weakness
- sickness
- moral weakness, depravity
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀσθένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀσθένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀσθένεια 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
- ἀσθένεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G769 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.
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- complaint idem, page 151.
- debility idem, page 199.
- decrepitude idem, page 202.
- delicacy idem, page 207.
- disease idem, page 232.
- enfeeblement idem, page 273.
- faintness idem, page 302.
- feebleness idem, page 313.
- frailty idem, page 342.
- ill health idem, page 414.
- illness idem, page 416.
- indisposition idem, page 434.
- infirmity idem, page 438.
- languor idem, page 476.
- malady idem, page 509.
- sickliness idem, page 772.
- sickness idem, page 772.
- tenderness idem, page 861.
- weakness idem, page 970.