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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.tʰe.os/ → /ˈa.θe.os/ → /ˈa.θe.os/
Adjective
ᾰ̓́θεος • (átheos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́θεον); second declension
- without gods
- rejecting or disdaining the belief in the gods (especially officially sanctioned gods), atheist
- generally: godless, secular
- abandoned by the gods
- (lexicography) not derived from a theonym
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄθεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄθεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄθεος 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
- ἄθεος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄθεος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G112 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.
- atheist idem, page 49.
- atheistical idem, page 49.
- blasphemous idem, page 82.
- godless idem, page 365.
- impious idem, page 421.
- irreligious idem, page 460.
- irreverent idem, page 460.
- profane idem, page 653.
- sacrilegious idem, page 729.
- sinful idem, page 777.
- ungodly idem, page 919.
- unhallowed idem, page 920.
- unholy idem, page 921.
- unrighteous idem, page 930.
- wicked idem, page 978.
- worldly idem, page 990.
- wrong idem, page 994.