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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to ἐπῐ́θῡμος (epíthūmos, “desirous”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pi.tʰyː.mí.aː/ → /e.pi.θyˈmi.a/ → /e.pi.θiˈmi.a/
Noun
ἐπῐθῡμῐ́ᾱ • (epithūmíā) f (genitive ἐπῐθῡμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- yearning, longing, desire, craving
- Often with a negative connotation: lust
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “ἐπιθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπιθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G1939 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.
- appetite idem, page 35.
- aspiration idem, page 45.
- bent idem, page 74.
- caprice idem, page 112.
- concupiscence idem, page 156.
- craving idem, page 182.
- desire idem, page 215.
- hunger idem, page 410.
- inclination idem, page 428.
- itch idem, page 461.
- longing idem, page 498.
- lust idem, page 505.
- passion idem, page 597.
- predilection idem, page 634.
- proneness idem, page 653.
- vagary idem, page 942.
- want idem, page 961.
- whim idem, page 976.
- wish idem, page 983.
- 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