ἐπιμέλεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπιμελής (epimelḗs) +‎ -εια (-eia)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.mé.leː.a/ → /e.piˈme.li.a/ → /e.piˈme.li.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.mé.leː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme.li.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme.li.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme.li.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme.li.a/

Noun

ἐπῐμέλειᾰ • (epĭméleiă) f (genitive ἐπῐμελείᾱς); first declension

1. care, attention
2. (in the plural) cares, pains
3. a public charge or commission

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐπῐμέλειᾰ; τῆς ἐπῐμελείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐμέλειᾰ hē epĭméleiă	τὼ ἐπῐμελείᾱ tṑ epĭmeleíā	αἱ ἐπῐμέλειαι hai epĭméleiai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐμελείᾱς tês epĭmeleíās	τοῖν ἐπῐμελείαιν toîn epĭmeleíain	τῶν ἐπῐμελειῶν tôn epĭmeleiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐμελείᾳ têi epĭmeleíāi	τοῖν ἐπῐμελείαιν toîn epĭmeleíain	ταῖς ἐπῐμελείαις taîs epĭmeleíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐμέλειᾰν tḕn epĭméleiăn	τὼ ἐπῐμελείᾱ tṑ epĭmeleíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐμελείᾱς tā̀s epĭmeleíās
Vocative	ἐπῐμέλειᾰ epĭméleiă	ἐπῐμελείᾱ epĭmeleíā	ἐπῐμέλειαι epĭméleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἐπιμέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐπιμέλεια, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἐπιμέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G1958 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.
  • application idem, page 36.
  • attention idem, page 51.
  • care idem, page 113.
  • diligence idem, page 224.
  • heed idem, page 394.
  • regard idem, page 686.
  • superintendence idem, page 839.
  • supervision idem, page 840.
  • tendance idem, page 861.