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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “I withdraw, revolt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pos.ta.sí.aː/ → /a.pos.taˈsi.a/ → /a.pos.taˈsi.a/
Noun
ἀποστασίᾱ • (apostasíā) f (genitive ἀποστασίᾱς); first declension
- defection, revolt, rebellion
- (religion) apostasy
- departure
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἀποστασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀποστασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀποστασία 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
- ἀποστασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G646 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible