ἔκστασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”) from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /éks.ta.sis/ → /ˈeks.ta.sis/ → /ˈeks.ta.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /éks.ta.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/

Noun

ἔκστᾰσῐς • (ékstăsĭs) f (genitive ἐκστᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. displacement from proper place
2. displacement of the mind: amazement, astonishment, bewilderment
3. trance, ecstasy

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἔκστᾰσῐς; τῆς ἐκστᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔκστᾰσῐς hē ékstăsĭs	τὼ ἐκστᾰ́σει tṑ ekstắsei	αἱ ἐκστᾰ́σεις hai ekstắseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐκστᾰ́σεως tês ekstắseōs	τοῖν ἐκστᾰσέοιν toîn ekstăséoin	τῶν ἐκστᾰ́σεων tôn ekstắseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐκστᾰ́σει têi ekstắsei	τοῖν ἐκστᾰσέοιν toîn ekstăséoin	ταῖς ἐκστᾰ́σεσῐ / ἐκστᾰ́σεσῐν taîs ekstắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔκστᾰσῐν tḕn ékstăsĭn	τὼ ἐκστᾰ́σει tṑ ekstắsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐκστᾰ́σεις tā̀s ekstắseis
Vocative	ἔκστᾰσῐ ékstăsĭ	ἐκστᾰ́σει ekstắsei	ἐκστᾰ́σεις ekstắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: ecstasy, ekstasis
• German: Ekstase
• Greek: έκσταση (ékstasi)
• Latin: ecstasis, exstasis, extasis
• Russian: экста́з (ekstáz)

Further reading

• “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔκστασις 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
• ἔκστασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1611 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible