θεοσέβεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

θεοσεβής (theosebḗs) +‎ -εια (-eia)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰe.o.sé.beː.a/ → /θe.oˈse.βi.a/ → /θe.oˈse.vi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰe.o.sé.beː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe.oˈse.bi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈse.βi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈse.vi.a/

Noun

θεοσέβειᾰ • (theosébeiă) f (genitive θεοσεβείᾱς); first declension

1. religiousness, reverence for the divine

Inflection

First declension of ἡ θεοσέβειᾰ; τῆς θεοσεβείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θεοσέβειᾰ hē theosébeiă	τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā	αἱ θεοσέβειαι hai theosébeiai
Genitive	τῆς θεοσεβείᾱς tês theosebeíās	τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain	τῶν θεοσεβειῶν tôn theosebeiôn
Dative	τῇ θεοσεβείᾳ têi theosebeíāi	τοῖν θεοσεβείαιν toîn theosebeíain	ταῖς θεοσεβείαις taîs theosebeíais
Accusative	τὴν θεοσέβειᾰν tḕn theosébeiăn	τὼ θεοσεβείᾱ tṑ theosebeíā	τᾱ̀ς θεοσεβείᾱς tā̀s theosebeíās
Vocative	θεοσέβειᾰ theosébeiă	θεοσεβείᾱ theosebeíā	θεοσέβειαι theosébeiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• εὐσέβεια f (eusébeia)

Antonyms

• ἀσέβεια f (asébeia)
• δυσσέβεια f (dussébeia)

Related terms

• see: θεός m (theós) and σέβας n (sébas)

Descendants

• → Greek: θεοσέβεια (theoséveia) (learned)

Further reading

• “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεοσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεοσέβεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • godliness idem, page 365.