ψυχικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “breath, spirit”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psyː.kʰi.kós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psy.kʰiˈkos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psy.çiˈkos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psy.çiˈkos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psi.çiˈkos/

Adjective

ψῡχῐκός • (psūkhikós) m (feminine ψῡχῐκή, neuter ψῡχῐκόν); first/second declension

of or relating to life or the soul
concerned only with the life or animal qualities, as opposed with spiritual concerns

Inflection

First and second declension of ψῡχῐκός; ψῡχῐκή; ψῡχῐκόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ψῡχῐκός psūkhikós	ψῡχῐκή psūkhikḗ	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhikón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhikā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκοί psūkhikoí	ψῡχῐκαί psūkhikaí	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhiká
Genitive	ψῡχῐκοῦ psūkhikoû	ψῡχῐκῆς psūkhikês	ψῡχῐκοῦ psūkhikoû	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhikoîn	ψῡχῐκαῖν psūkhikaîn	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhikoîn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhikôn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhikôn	ψῡχῐκῶν psūkhikôn
Dative	ψῡχῐκῷ psūkhikôi	ψῡχῐκῇ psūkhikêi	ψῡχῐκῷ psūkhikôi	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhikoîn	ψῡχῐκαῖν psūkhikaîn	ψῡχῐκοῖν psūkhikoîn	ψῡχῐκοῖς psūkhikoîs	ψῡχῐκαῖς psūkhikaîs	ψῡχῐκοῖς psūkhikoîs
Accusative	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhikón	ψῡχῐκήν psūkhikḗn	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhikón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhikā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκούς psūkhikoús	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ς psūkhikā́s	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhiká
Vocative	ψῡχῐκέ psūkhiké	ψῡχῐκή psūkhikḗ	ψῡχῐκόν psūkhikón	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκᾱ́ psūkhikā́	ψῡχῐκώ psūkhikṓ	ψῡχῐκοί psūkhikoí	ψῡχῐκαί psūkhikaí	ψῡχῐκᾰ́ psūkhiká
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ψῡχῐκῶς psūkhikôs			ψῡχῐκώτερος psūkhikṓteros			ψῡχῐκώτᾰτος psūkhikṓtatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

French: psychique

References

“ψυχικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ψυχικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ψυχικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G5591 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.
- spiritual idem, page 802.