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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξοντ- (exont-, participle) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, verbal adjective suffix), from ἔξεστι (éxesti, “it is possible, it is allowed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.suː.sí.aː/ → /ek.suˈsi.a/ → /ek.suˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ • (exousíā) f (genitive ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- power, means, license, or authority to do something.
- power, authority
- office, title
- means, resources
- pomp
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐξουσία 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
- G1849 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.
- authorisation idem, page 53.
- authority idem, page 53.
- competence idem, page 151.
- connivance idem, page 161.
- consent idem, page 162.
- control idem, page 170.
- facility idem, page 300.
- faculty idem, page 301.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- immunity idem, page 418.
- jurisdiction idem, page 466.
- latitude idem, page 478.
- leave idem, page 483.
- liberty idem, page 488.
- licence idem, page 488.
- might idem, page 528.
- power idem, page 630.
- sanction idem, page 733.
- scope idem, page 740.
- strength idem, page 824.
- sufferance idem, page 835.
- toleration idem, page 880.
- warrant idem, page 964.
- ἐξουσία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.