εὐδαιμονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn, “fortunate”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, “feminine abstract substantive”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.dai̯.mo.ní.aː/ → /eβ.ðɛ.moˈni.a/ → /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.dai̯.mo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.dɛ.moˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ.ðɛ.moˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/

Noun

εὐδαιμονίᾱ • (eudaimoníā) f (genitive εὐδαιμονίᾱς); first declension

1. happiness, well-being
2. (ethics) Eudaimonia (in Aristotelian ethics, a condition of living a life of the highest virtue; the state of human flourishing, which is desirable in and of itself, rather than as a means towards some other end)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐδαιμονίᾱ; τῆς εὐδαιμονίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐδαιμονίᾱ hē eudaimoníā	τὼ εὐδαιμονίᾱ tṑ eudaimoníā	αἱ εὐδαιμονίαι hai eudaimoníai
Genitive	τῆς εὐδαιμονίᾱς tês eudaimoníās	τοῖν εὐδαιμονίαιν toîn eudaimoníain	τῶν εὐδαιμονιῶν tôn eudaimoniôn
Dative	τῇ εὐδαιμονίᾳ têi eudaimoníāi	τοῖν εὐδαιμονίαιν toîn eudaimoníain	ταῖς εὐδαιμονίαις taîs eudaimoníais
Accusative	τὴν εὐδαιμονίᾱν tḕn eudaimoníān	τὼ εὐδαιμονίᾱ tṑ eudaimoníā	τᾱ̀ς εὐδαιμονίᾱς tā̀s eudaimoníās
Vocative	εὐδαιμονίᾱ eudaimoníā	εὐδαιμονίᾱ eudaimoníā	εὐδαιμονίαι eudaimoníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐδαιμονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blessedness idem, page 83.
  • bliss idem, page 83.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • happiness idem, page 384.
  • joy idem, page 464.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • prosperity idem, page 653.