ἀφθαρσία
See also: αφθαρσία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀ- (a-) + φθαρσία (phtharsía), equivalent to ἄφθαρτος (áphthartos, “indestructible, immortal, eternal”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /apʰ.tʰar.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /apʰ.tʰarˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aɸ.θarˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /af.θarˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /af.θarˈsi.a/
Noun
ἀφθαρσίᾱ • (aphtharsíā) f (genitive ἀφθαρσίᾱς); first declension
- incorruption, immortality, perpetuity
- incorruptibility, indestructibility, imperishability
- incorruptness, purity, integrity, sincerity
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀφθαρσίᾱ hē aphtharsíā |
τὼ ἀφθαρσίᾱ tṑ aphtharsíā |
αἱ ἀφθαρσίαι hai aphtharsíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀφθαρσίᾱς tês aphtharsíās |
τοῖν ἀφθαρσίαιν toîn aphtharsíain |
τῶν ἀφθαρσιῶν tôn aphtharsiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀφθαρσίᾳ tēî aphtharsíāi |
τοῖν ἀφθαρσίαιν toîn aphtharsíain |
ταῖς ἀφθαρσίαις taîs aphtharsíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀφθαρσίᾱν tḕn aphtharsíān |
τὼ ἀφθαρσίᾱ tṑ aphtharsíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀφθαρσίᾱς tā̀s aphtharsíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀφθαρσίᾱ aphtharsíā |
ἀφθαρσίᾱ aphtharsíā |
ἀφθαρσίαι aphtharsíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: αφθαρσία (aftharsía) (learned)
Further reading
- “ἀφθαρσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀφθαρσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀφθαρσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G861 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀφθαρσία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011