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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai, “I am able”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dý.na.mis/ → /ˈðy.na.mis/ → /ˈði.na.mis/
Noun
δῠ́νᾰμῐς • (dŭ́nămĭs) f (genitive δῠνᾰ́μεως); third declension
- power, might, strength
- ability, skill
- power, authority, influence
- force of war
- magic, magically potent substance or object, magic powers
- manifestation of divine power: miracle
- faculty, capacity
- worth, value
- The force of a word: meaning
- (mathematics) square root
- (mathematics) power
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: δύναμη f (dýnami, “power”)
- Katharevousa: δύναμις f (dýnamis, “power”)
Further reading
- “δύναμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δύναμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δύναμις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δύναμις 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
- δύναμις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δύναμις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “δύναμις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1411 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.
- ability idem, page 2.
- amount idem, page 28.
- armament idem, page 40.
- authority idem, page 53.
- capability idem, page 111.
- capacity idem, page 111.
- competence idem, page 151.
- effect idem, page 262.
- efficacy idem, page 263.
- endowment idem, page 273.
- faculty idem, page 301.
- force idem, page 335.
- function idem, page 349.
- gift idem, page 359.
- greatness idem, page 372.
- import idem, page 422.
- influence idem, page 439.
- interest idem, page 450.
- meaning idem, page 520.
- might idem, page 528.
- organ idem, page 579.
- part idem, page 593.
- potency idem, page 629.
- power idem, page 630.
- purport idem, page 659.
- qualification idem, page 663.
- reach idem, page 675.
- root idem, page 721.
- sense idem, page 752.
- significance idem, page 775.
- square idem, page 807.
- strength idem, page 824.
- sum idem, page 837.
- sway idem, page 847.
- talent idem, page 854.
- tenor idem, page 862.
Greek
Noun
δύναμις • (dýnamis) f
- Katharevousa form of δύναμη (dýnami)