ἐλεημοσύνη

See also: ελεημοσύνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “pitiful, merciful”) +‎ -σῠ́νη (-sŭ́nē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/ → /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/ → /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.le.e̝.moˈsy.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/

Noun

ἐλεημοσῠ́νη • (eleēmosŭ́nē) f (genitive ἐλεημοσῠ́νης); first declension

1. pity, mercy
2. alms, charity

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη; τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη hē eleēmosŭ́nē	τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosŭ́nā	αἱ ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι hai eleēmosŭ́nai
Genitive	τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης tês eleēmosŭ́nēs	τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosŭ́nain	τῶν ἐλεημοσῠνῶν tôn eleēmosŭnôn
Dative	τῇ ἐλεημοσῠ́νῃ têi eleēmosŭ́nēi	τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosŭ́nain	ταῖς ἐλεημοσῠ́ναις taîs eleēmosŭ́nais
Accusative	τὴν ἐλεημοσῠ́νην tḕn eleēmosŭ́nēn	τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosŭ́nā	τᾱ̀ς ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱς tā̀s eleēmosŭ́nās
Vocative	ἐλεημοσῠ́νη eleēmosŭ́nē	ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ eleēmosŭ́nā	ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι eleēmosŭ́nai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ελεημοσύνη (eleïmosýni)
• → Latin: eleēmosyna (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλεημοσύνη 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
• ἐλεημοσύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1654 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible