ἀγαλλίασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀγαλλιάω (agalliáō), form of ἀγάλλω (agállō, “to rejoice”) + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡal.lí.aː.sis/ → /a.ɣalˈli.a.sis/ → /a.ɣaˈli.a.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡal.lí.aː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡalˈli.a.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣalˈli.a.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣalˈli.a.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣaˈli.a.sis/

Noun

ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐ́ᾱσῐς • (agallíāsis) f (genitive ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. great joy, exultation
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 51.11
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 1:14
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 1:44
   • 300 BCE – 1 BCE, Book of Enoch 5.9

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐ́ᾱσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐ́ᾱσῐς hē agallíāsis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐᾱ́σεως tês agalliā́seōs
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐᾱ́σει têi agalliā́sei
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐ́ᾱσῐν tḕn agallíāsin
Vocative	ᾰ̓γᾰλλῐ́ᾱσῐ agallíāsi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αγαλλίαση (agallíasi)

Further reading

• “ἀγαλλίασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγαλλίασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγαλλίασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγαλλίασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G20 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible