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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀληθής (alēthḗs, “true”) + -ιᾰ (-ia, abstract noun suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lɛ̌ː.tʰeː.a/ → /aˈli.θi.a/ → /aˈli.θi.a/
Noun
ἀλήθεια • (alḗtheia) f (genitive ἀληθείας); first declension
- not a lie
- truth
- (Septuagint, plural form?) the Thummim
Declension
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ἀλήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλήθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀλήθεια 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
- ἀλήθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G225 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.
- accuracy idem, page 7.
- authenticity idem, page 53.
- basis idem, page 64.
- certainty idem, page 122.
- fact idem, page 300.
- foundation idem, page 341.
- genuineness idem, page 357.
- reality idem, page 676.
- sincerity idem, page 777.
- substance idem, page 832.
- truth idem, page 899.
- truthfulness idem, page 899.
- veracity idem, page 948.
- verity idem, page 948.