ἐπουσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From έπών, ἐποῦσᾰ, ἐπόν (épṓn, epoûsă, epón, “remaining”), the present participle of ἔπειμῐ (épeimĭ) (“remain, be left over”), + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pûː.sí.aː/ → /eˈpuˈsi.a/ → /eˈpuˈsi.a/

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

Noun

ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ • (epousĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐπουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. surplus

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐπουσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ hē epousĭ́ā	τὼ ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ epousĭ́ā	αἱ ἐπουσῐ́αι hai epousĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπουσῐ́ᾱς tês epousĭ́ās	τοῖν ἐπουσῐ́αιν toîn epousĭ́ain	τῶν ἐπουσῐῶν tôn epousĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπουσῐ́ᾳ têi epousĭ́āi	τοῖν ἐπουσῐ́αιν toîn epousĭ́ain	ταῖς ἐπουσῐ́αις taîs epousĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπουσῐ́ᾱν tḕn epousĭ́ān	τὼ ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ epousĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπουσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s epousĭ́ās
Vocative	ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ epousĭ́ā	ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ epousĭ́ā	ἐπουσῐ́αι epousĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἐπουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐπουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐπουσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “ἐπουσία”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐπουσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette