ἐπιληψία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.le̝pˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/

Noun

ἐπῐληψίᾱ • (epĭlēpsíā) f (genitive ἐπῐληψίᾱς); first declension

1. Alternative form of ἐπίληψις (epílēpsis)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐπῐληψίᾱ; τῆς ἐπῐληψίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐληψίᾱ hē epĭlēpsíā	τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epĭlēpsíā	αἱ ἐπῐληψίαι hai epĭlēpsíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tês epĭlēpsíās	τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epĭlēpsíain	τῶν ἐπῐληψιῶν tôn epĭlēpsiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐληψίᾳ têi epĭlēpsíāi	τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epĭlēpsíain	ταῖς ἐπῐληψίαις taîs epĭlēpsíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐληψίᾱν tḕn epĭlēpsíān	τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epĭlēpsíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tā̀s epĭlēpsíās
Vocative	ἐπῐληψίᾱ epĭlēpsíā	ἐπῐληψίᾱ epĭlēpsíā	ἐπῐληψίαι epĭlēpsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: επιληψία (epilipsía)
• → Asturian: epilepsia
• → Czech: epilepsie
• → Danish: epilepsi
• → Dutch: epilepsie
• → English: epilepsy
• → Esperanto: epilepsio
• → Finnish: epilepsia
• → Middle French: epilepsie
  • French: épilepsie
  • Norman: épilepsie
• → German: Epilepsie
• → Hungarian: epilepszia
• → Norwegian Bokmål: epilepsi
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: epilepsi
• → Polish: epilepsja
• → Portuguese: epilepsia
• → Romanian: epilepsie
• → Russian: эпиле́псия (epilépsija)
• → Slovak: epilepsia
• → Spanish: epilepsia
• → Swedish: epilepsi

Further reading

• ἐπιληψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἐπιληψία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἐπιληψία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press