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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὤν , οὖσᾰ , ὄν ( ṓn, oûsa, ón , “ being ” ) , the present participle of εἰμῐ́ ( eimí ) (“to be”), + -ῐ́ᾱ ( -íā , abstract noun suffix ) .[ 1]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /uː.sí.aː/ → /uˈsi.a/ → /uˈsi.a/
Noun
οὐσίᾱ • (ousíā ) f (genitive οὐσίᾱς ) ; first declension
that which is one's own , one's substance , property
445 BCE – 380 BCE ,
Lysias ,
On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias 17
Anaxipp. 1.32
( philosophy ) Synonym of φύσις ( phúsis ) stable being, immutable reality
substance, essence
true nature of that which is a member of a kind
the possession of such a nature, substantiality
( in the concrete ) the primary real, the substratum underlying all change and process in nature
( logic ) substance as the leading category
( various uses after Plato and Aristotle )
Pythagorean name for I
name of a plaster
a fire-resisting substance
( in magic ) a material thing by which a connection is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Greek: ουσία ( ousía )
→ Arabic: أُوسِيَّة ( ʔūsiyya )
→ Old Church Slavonic: естьство ( estĭstvo ) ( calque ) (see there for further descendants )
References
Further reading
“οὐσία ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“οὐσία ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
οὐσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette
G3776 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
οὐσία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007 ) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries ], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited . affair idem, page 16.being idem, page 72.competence idem, page 151.essence idem, page 283.existence idem, page 292.fortune idem, page 340.inheritance idem, page 440.possession idem, page 628.property idem, page 653.reality idem, page 676.substance idem, page 832.