ἐλευθερία

See also: ελευθερία

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.tʰe.rí.aː/ → /e.leɸ.θeˈri.a/ → /e.lef.θeˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.tʰe.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.lew.tʰeˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.leɸ.θeˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.lef.θeˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.lef.θeˈri.a/

Etymology 1

From ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, “free”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Alternative forms

• ἐλευθερῐ́η (eleutheríē) — Ionic

Noun

ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ • (eleutheríā) f (genitive ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. freedom, liberty

   Ἐλευθερία ἢ Θάνατος.

   Eleuthería ḕ Thánatos.

   Freedom or Death.

2. manumission
3. license

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ hē eleutheríā	τὼ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ tṑ eleutheríā	αἱ ἐλευθερῐ́αι hai eleutheríai
Genitive	τῆς ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς tês eleutheríās	τοῖν ἐλευθερῐ́αιν toîn eleutheríain	τῶν ἐλευθερῐῶν tôn eleutheriôn
Dative	τῇ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾳ têi eleutheríāi	τοῖν ἐλευθερῐ́αιν toîn eleutheríain	ταῖς ἐλευθερῐ́αις taîs eleutheríais
Accusative	τὴν ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱν tḕn eleutheríān	τὼ ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ tṑ eleutheríā	τᾱ̀ς ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eleutheríās
Vocative	ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ eleutheríā	ἐλευθερῐ́ᾱ eleutheríā	ἐλευθερῐ́αι eleutheríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ελευθερία (elefthería)

Etymology 2

Noun

ἐλευθερία • (eleuthería)

1. inflection of ἐλευθερῐ́η (eleutheríē):
   1. nominative dual
   2. accusative dual
   3. vocative dual

References

• “ἐλευθερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλευθερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλευθερία 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
• ἐλευθερία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐλευθερία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1657 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.
  • freedom idem, page 344.
  • independence idem, page 432.
  • liberty idem, page 488.