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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “pitiful, merciful”) + -σῠ́νη (-súnē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/ → /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/ → /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/
Noun
ἐλεημοσῠ́νη • (eleēmosúnē) f (genitive ἐλεημοσῠ́νης); first declension
- pity, mercy
- alms, charity
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλεημοσύνη 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
- ἐλεημοσύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1654 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible