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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welp-, like ἔλπω (élpō, “I cause to hope”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /el.pís/ → /elˈpis/ → /elˈpis/
Noun
ἐλπῐ́ς • (elpís) f (genitive ἐλπῐ́δος); third declension
- hope, expectation, belief that something will happen
428 BCE – 347 BCE,
Plato,
Laws 644c:
- πρὸς δὲ τούτοιν ἀμφοῖν αὖ δόξας μελλόντων, οἷν κοινὸν μὲν ὄνομα ἐλπίς, ἴδιον δέ, φόβος μὲν ἡ πρὸ λύπης ἐλπίς, θάρρος δὲ ἡ πρὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου
- pròs dè toútoin amphoîn aû dóxas mellóntōn, hoîn koinòn mèn ónoma elpís, ídion dé, phóbos mèn hē prò lúpēs elpís, thárrhos dè hē prò toû enantíou
- in addition to both of these, also opinions about things that will happen, for which the usual name is "expectation", and a particular : the expectation before pain is fear, while before the opposite is courage
- object of hope
- anxiety, boding
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐλπίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐλπίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἐλπίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1680 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.
- 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