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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”) from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /éks.ta.sis/ → /ˈeks.ta.sis/ → /ˈeks.ta.sis/
Noun
ἔκστᾰσῐς • (ékstasis) f (genitive ἐκστᾰ́σεως); third declension
- displacement from proper place
- displacement of the mind: amazement, astonishment, bewilderment
- trance, ecstasy
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔκστασις 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
- ἔκστασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1611 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible