θέλημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θέλω (thélō, “I resolve”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰé.lɛː.ma/ → /ˈθe.li.ma/ → /ˈθe.li.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰé.lɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe.le̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/

Noun

θέλημᾰ • (thélēmă) n (genitive θελήμᾰτος); third declension

1. will, desire
2. errand

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ θέλημᾰ; τοῦ θελήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θέλημᾰ tò thélēmă	τὼ θελήμᾰτε tṑ thelḗmăte	τᾰ̀ θελήμᾰτᾰ tằ thelḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ θελήμᾰτος toû thelḗmătos	τοῖν θελημᾰ́τοιν toîn thelēmắtoin	τῶν θελημᾰ́των tôn thelēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ θελήμᾰτῐ tōî thelḗmătĭ	τοῖν θελημᾰ́τοιν toîn thelēmắtoin	τοῖς θελήμᾰσῐ / θελήμᾰσῐν toîs thelḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ θέλημᾰ tò thélēmă	τὼ θελήμᾰτε tṑ thelḗmăte	τᾰ̀ θελήμᾰτᾰ tằ thelḗmătă
Vocative	θέλημᾰ thélēmă	θελήμᾰτε thelḗmăte	θελήμᾰτᾰ thelḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: Thelema

References

• “θέλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θέλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θέλημα 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
• G2307 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible