εὐδαιμονία

See also: ευδαιμονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn, “fortunate”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, “feminine abstract substantive”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.dai̯.mo.ní.aː/ → /eβ.ðɛ.moˈni.a/ → /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.dai̯.mo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.dɛ.moˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ.ðɛ.moˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev.ðe.moˈni.a/

Noun

εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ • (eudaimonĭ́ā) f (genitive εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. happiness, well-being
2. (ethics) Eudaimonia (in Aristotelian ethics, a condition of living a life of the highest virtue; the state of human flourishing, which is desirable in and of itself, rather than as a means towards some other end)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ hē eudaimonĭ́ā	τὼ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ eudaimonĭ́ā	αἱ εὐδαιμονῐ́αι hai eudaimonĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς tês eudaimonĭ́ās	τοῖν εὐδαιμονῐ́αιν toîn eudaimonĭ́ain	τῶν εὐδαιμονῐῶν tôn eudaimonĭôn
Dative	τῇ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾳ tēî eudaimonĭ́āi	τοῖν εὐδαιμονῐ́αιν toîn eudaimonĭ́ain	ταῖς εὐδαιμονῐ́αις taîs eudaimonĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱν tḕn eudaimonĭ́ān	τὼ εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ eudaimonĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eudaimonĭ́ās
Vocative	εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ eudaimonĭ́ā	εὐδαιμονῐ́ᾱ eudaimonĭ́ā	εὐδαιμονῐ́αι eudaimonĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εὐδαιμονία” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “εὐδαιμονία”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blessedness idem, page 83.
  • bliss idem, page 83.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • happiness idem, page 384.
  • joy idem, page 464.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • prosperity idem, page 653.