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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θύω (thúō, “I sacrifice”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰy.sí.aː/ → /θyˈsi.a/ → /θiˈsi.a/
Noun
θῠσῐ́ᾱ • (thusíā) f (genitive θῠσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- offering, sacrifice, a sacrificing
- victim, offering
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θυσία 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
- “θυσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2378 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.
Greek
Noun
θυσία • (thysía) f (plural θυσίες)
- sacrifice
Declension