ἀπουσία

See also: απουσία and ἀπουσίᾳ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀπο- (apo-) +‎ οὐσίᾱ (ousíā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.puː.sí.aː/ → /a.puˈsi.a/ → /a.puˈsi.a/

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

Noun

ἀπουσίᾱ • (apousíā) f (genitive ἀπουσίᾱς); first declension

1. absence

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱ hē ăpousĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱς tês ăpousĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾳ têi ăpousĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱν tḕn ăpousĭ́ān
Vocative	ᾰ̓πουσῐ́ᾱ ăpousĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 2:12:

  Ὥστε, ἀγαπητοί μου, καθὼς πάντοτε ὑπηκούσατε, μὴ ὡς ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ μου μόνον, ἀλλὰ νῦν πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἐν τῇ ἀπουσίᾳ μου, μετὰ φόβου καὶ τρόμου τὴν ἑαυτῶν σωτηρίαν κατεργάζεσθε·

  Hṓste, agapētoí mou, kathṑs pántote hupēkoúsate, mḕ hōs en têi parousíāi mou mónon, allà nûn pollôi mâllon en têi apousíāi mou, metà phóbou kaì trómou tḕn heautôn sōtērían katergázesthe;

  • Translation by KJV

    Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Further reading

• ἀπουσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀπουσία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀπουσία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀπουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G666 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.
  • absence idem, page 3.