θεότης
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θειότης (theiótēs)
Etymology
From θεός (theós) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.ó.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰeˈo.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θeˈo.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θeˈo.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θeˈo.tis/
Noun
θεότης • (theótēs) f (genitive θεότητος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ θεότης hē theótēs |
αἱ θεότητες hai theótētes | |||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς θεότητος tês theótētos |
τῶν θεοτήτων tôn theotḗtōn | |||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ θεότητῐ tēî theótētĭ |
ταῖς θεότησῐ / θεότησῐν taîs theótēsĭ(n) | |||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν θεότητᾰ tḕn theótētă |
τᾱ̀ς θεότητᾰς tā̀s theótētăs | |||||||||||
| Vocative | θεότης theótēs |
θεότητες theótētes | |||||||||||
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Quotations
- New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 1:20:
- τὰ γὰρ ἀόρατα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου τοῖς ποιήμασι νοούμενα καθορᾶται, ἥ τε ἀΐδιος αὐτοῦ δύναμις καὶ θειότης, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἀναπολογήτους·
- tà gàr aórata autoû apò ktíseōs kósmou toîs poiḗmasi nooúmena kathorâtai, hḗ te aḯdios autoû dúnamis kaì theiótēs, eis tò eînai autoùs anapologḗtous;
- Translation by KJV
- For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
- τὰ γὰρ ἀόρατα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου τοῖς ποιήμασι νοούμενα καθορᾶται, ἥ τε ἀΐδιος αὐτοῦ δύναμις καὶ θειότης, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἀναπολογήτους·
- New Testament, Epistle to the Colossians 2:9:
- ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς
- hóti en autōî katoikeî pân tò plḗrōma tês theótētos sōmatikôs
- Translation by KJV
- For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
- ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς
Descendants
- Greek: θεότητα (theótita)
- → Old Church Slavonic: божьство (božĭstvo) (calque)
- → Old Swedish: guþdomber (calque)
- Swedish: gudom
Further reading
- θεότης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “θεότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θεότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914), “θεότης”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- G2320 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible