ἐπαγγελία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπαγγέλλω (epangéllō, “to announce, promise”) (from ἐπι- (epi-, “on”) + ἀγγέλλω (angéllō, “to announce”)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Compare typologically Latin prōmissum, Russian по́сул (pósul) (? akin to слать (slatʹ)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.paŋ.ɡe.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.paŋ.ɡeˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
Noun
ἐπαγγελίᾱ • (epangelíā) f (genitive ἐπαγγελίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐπαγγελίᾱ hē epangelíā |
τὼ ἐπαγγελίᾱ tṑ epangelíā |
αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι hai epangelíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπαγγελίᾱς tês epangelíās |
τοῖν ἐπαγγελίαιν toîn epangelíain |
τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν tôn epangeliôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπαγγελίᾳ tēî epangelíāi |
τοῖν ἐπαγγελίαιν toîn epangelíain |
ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις taîs epangelíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐπαγγελίᾱν tḕn epangelíān |
τὼ ἐπαγγελίᾱ tṑ epangelíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐπαγγελίᾱς tā̀s epangelíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπαγγελίᾱ epangelíā |
ἐπαγγελίᾱ epangelíā |
ἐπαγγελίαι epangelíai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπαγγελία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G1860 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- offer idem, page 571.