θεουργία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θεουργός (theourgós) (from θεός (theós) +‎ -ουργός (-ourgós) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰe.uːr.ɡí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe.urˈɡi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θe.urˈʝi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θe.urˈʝi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θe.urˈʝi.a/

Noun

θεουργίᾱ • (theourgíā) f (genitive θεουργίᾱς); first declension

divine work
sacramental rite, mystery

Declension

First declension of ἡ θεουργίᾱ; τῆς θεουργίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ θεουργίᾱ hē theourgíā
Genitive	τῆς θεουργίᾱς tês theourgíās
Dative	τῇ θεουργίᾳ tēî theourgíāi
Accusative	τὴν θεουργίᾱν tḕn theourgíān
Vocative	θεουργίᾱ theourgíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Georgian: თეურგია (teurgia)
→ Latin: theūrgia
- Catalan: teúrgia
- → Danish: teurgi
- → Dutch: theürgie
- → English: theurgy
- → Estonian: teurgia
- → Finnish: teurgia
- French: théurgie
- Friulian: teurgjie
- → Galician: teúrxia
- → German: Theurgie
- → Hungarian: teurgia
- Italian: teurgia
- → Latvian: teurģija
- → Lithuanian: teurgija
- Occitan: teürgia
- → Polish: teurgia
- Portuguese: teurgia
- Romanian: teurgie
- → Swedish: teurgi
- Spanish: teúrgia
→ Russian: теурги́я (teurgíja)
→ Ukrainian: теургі́я (teurhíja)

Further reading

θεουργία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
θεουργία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“θεουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pape, Wilhelm (1914), “θεουργία”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn