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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐμπαθής (empathḗs, “emotional”) + -εια (-eia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /em.pá.tʰeː.a/ → /emˈpa.θi.a/ → /emˈba.θi.a/
Noun
ἐμπάθειᾰ • (empátheia) f (genitive ἐμπᾰθείᾱς); first declension
- physical affection
- passion
- partiality
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἐμπάθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμπάθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἐμπάθεια”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐμπάθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press