εὐχαριστία

See also: ευχαριστία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐχᾰ́ρῐστος (eukháristos, “thankful, grateful”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ χᾰ́ρῐς (kháris, “grace”) +‎ -τος (-tos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.kʰa.ris.tí.aː/ → /eɸ.xa.risˈti.a/ → /ef.xa.risˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.kʰa.ris.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.kʰa.risˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸ.xa.risˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ef.xa.risˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ef.xa.risˈti.a/

Noun

εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ • (eukharistíā) f (genitive εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. thanks, gratitude
2. giving of thanks
3. Eucharist
4. gracefulness

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ hē eukharistíā	τὼ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ tṑ eukharistíā	αἱ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́αι hai eukharistíai
Genitive	τῆς εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱς tês eukharistíās	τοῖν εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́αιν toîn eukharistíain	τῶν εὐχᾰρῐστῐῶν tôn eukharistiôn
Dative	τῇ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾳ têi eukharistíāi	τοῖν εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́αιν toîn eukharistíain	ταῖς εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́αις taîs eukharistíais
Accusative	τὴν εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱν tḕn eukharistíān	τὼ εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ tṑ eukharistíā	τᾱ̀ς εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eukharistíās
Vocative	εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ eukharistíā	εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́ᾱ eukharistíā	εὐχᾰρῐστῐ́αι eukharistíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍇𐌰𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌰 (aiwxaristia)
• Latin: eucharistia
  • English: Eucharist
  • Dutch: eucharistie
  • French: eucharistie
  • German: Eucharistie
  • Italian: eucaristia
  • Hebrew: אויכריסטיה (oikharístia)
  • Portuguese: eucaristia
  • Spanish: eucaristía

References

• “εὐχαριστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐχαριστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐχαριστία 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
• G2169 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible