ὁσιότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅσιος (hósios) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.si.ó.tɛːs/ → /o.siˈo.tis/ → /o.siˈo.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.si.ó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.siˈo.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.siˈo.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.siˈo.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.siˈo.tis/

Noun

ὁσῐότης • (hosiótēs) f (genitive ὁσῐότητος); third declension

1. piety

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὁσῐότης; τῆς ὁσῐότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὁσῐότης hē hosiótēs	τὼ ὁσῐότητε tṑ hosiótēte	αἱ ὁσῐότητες hai hosiótētes
Genitive	τῆς ὁσῐότητος tês hosiótētos	τοῖν ὁσῐοτήτοιν toîn hosiotḗtoin	τῶν ὁσῐοτήτων tôn hosiotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ ὁσῐότητῐ têi hosiótēti	τοῖν ὁσῐοτήτοιν toîn hosiotḗtoin	ταῖς ὁσῐότησῐ / ὁσῐότησῐν taîs hosiótēsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὁσῐότητᾰ tḕn hosiótēta	τὼ ὁσῐότητε tṑ hosiótēte	τᾱ̀ς ὁσῐότητᾰς tā̀s hosiótētas
Vocative	ὁσῐότης hosiótēs	ὁσῐότητε hosiótēte	ὁσῐότητες hosiótētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Descendants

• Greek: οσιότητα (osiótita)

Further reading

• “ὁσιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁσιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁσιότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conscientiousness idem, page 162.
  • devotion idem, page 221.
  • dutifulness idem, page 257.
  • godliness idem, page 365.
  • holiness idem, page 403.
  • morality idem, page 540.
  • piety idem, page 612.
  • religiousness idem, page 691.
  • reverence idem, page 709.
  • righteousness idem, page 715.
  • sanctification idem, page 733.
  • veneration idem, page 946.