παρρησία

From πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”) +‎ ῥῆσις (rhêsis, “utterance, speech”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

πᾰρρησῐ́ᾱ • (parrhēsíā) f (genitive πᾰρρησῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. openness, frankness
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 442, (compare Ion 672)
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 668
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 391
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 541
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 20C
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 557B
   • 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 31
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 7:4
2. freedom of speech
3. (in a bad sense) licence of tongue
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 229B, (compare Plato, Phaedrus 240E)

• “παρρησία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παρρησία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παρρησία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3954 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.
  • bluffness idem, page 86.
  • bluntness idem, page 86.
  • boldness idem, page 88.
  • candour idem, page 110.
  • frankness idem, page 342.
  • freedom idem, page 344.
  • independence idem, page 432.
  • latitude idem, page 478.
  • openness idem, page 576.
  • outspokenness idem, page 583.
  • plain-spokenness idem, page 617.
  • plainness idem, page 617.
  • speech idem, page 800.