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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn, “fortunate”) + -ίᾱ (-íā, “feminine abstract substantive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.dai̯.mo.ní.aː/ → /eβ.ðɛ.moˈni.a/ → /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/
Noun
εὐδαιμονίᾱ • (eudaimoníā) f (genitive εὐδαιμονίᾱς); first declension
- happiness, well-being
- (ethics) Eudaimonia (in Aristotelian ethics, a condition of living a life of the highest virtue; the state of human flourishing, which is desirable in and of itself, rather than as a means towards some other end)
Inflection
Further reading
- “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐδαιμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “εὐδαιμονία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.