θυσία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θῠσῐ́η (thŭsĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

From θύω (thúō, “I sacrifice”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰy.sí.aː/ → /θyˈsi.a/ → /θiˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰy.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰyˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θyˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θyˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈsi.a/

Noun

θῠσῐ́ᾱ • (thŭsĭ́ā) f (genitive θῠσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. offering, sacrifice, a sacrificing
2. victim, offering

Inflection

First declension of ἡ θῠσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς θῠσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θῠσῐ́ᾱ hē thŭsĭ́ā	τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thŭsĭ́ā	αἱ θῠσῐ́αι hai thŭsĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tês thŭsĭ́ās	τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thŭsĭ́ain	τῶν θῠσῐῶν tôn thŭsĭôn
Dative	τῇ θῠσῐ́ᾳ têi thŭsĭ́āi	τοῖν θῠσῐ́αιν toîn thŭsĭ́ain	ταῖς θῠσῐ́αις taîs thŭsĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν θῠσῐ́ᾱν tḕn thŭsĭ́ān	τὼ θῠσῐ́ᾱ tṑ thŭsĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς θῠσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thŭsĭ́ās
Vocative	θῠσῐ́ᾱ thŭsĭ́ā	θῠσῐ́ᾱ thŭsĭ́ā	θῠσῐ́αι thŭsĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• θυηλή (thuēlḗ)
• θῦμα (thûma)
• θυο-σκόος (thuo-skóos)
• θύσθλα (thústhla)
• θυσιαστήριον (thusiastḗrion)
• θύσιμος (thúsimos)
• θυστάς (thustás)
• θυτήρ (thutḗr)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲑⲩⲥⲓⲁ (thusia)
• Greek: θυσία (thysía)

References

• “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θυσία 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
• “θυσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2378 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • festival idem, page 316.
  • hecatomb idem, page 394.
  • holiday idem, page 403.
  • ovation idem, page 584.
  • sacrifice idem, page 729.
  • thanksgiving idem, page 863.
  • triumph idem, page 896.

Greek

Noun

θυσία • (thysía) f (plural θυσίες)

1. sacrifice

Declension

Declension of θυσία

	singular	plural
nominative	θυσία (thysía)	θυσίες (thysíes)
genitive	θυσίας (thysías)	θυσιών (thysión)
accusative	θυσία (thysía)	θυσίες (thysíes)
vocative	θυσία (thysía)	θυσίες (thysíes)

Related terms

• αθυσίαστος (athysíastos, “unsacrificed”, adjective)
• ανθρωποθυσία f (anthropothysía, “human sacrifice”)
• αυτοθυσία f (aftothysía, “self-sacrifice”)
• αυτοθυσιάζομαι (aftothysiázomai, “to self-sacrifice”)
• θυσιάζω (thysiázo, “to sacrifice”)
• θυσιαστήριος (thysiastírios, “sacrificial”, adjective)

Further reading

• θυσία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• “θυσία”, in Platform to search dictionaries of modern and medieval Greek at the Centre for the Greek language