ἀσφάλεια

See also: ασφάλεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀσφαλής (asphalḗs) +‎ -ειᾰ (-eiă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.pʰá.leː.a/ → /asˈɸa.li.a/ → /asˈfa.li.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.pʰá.leː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈpʰa.li.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈɸa.li.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈfa.li.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈfa.li.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ • (ăsphắleiă) f (genitive ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς); first declension

1. security, surety
2. certainty

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ; τῆς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ hē ăsphắleiă	τὼ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ tṑ ăsphăleíā	αἱ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειαι hai ăsphắleiai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς tês ăsphăleíās	τοῖν ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαιν toîn ăsphăleíain	τῶν ᾰ̓σφᾰλειῶν tôn ăsphăleiôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾳ tēî ăsphăleíāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαιν toîn ăsphăleíain	ταῖς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαις taîs ăsphăleíais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰν tḕn ăsphắleiăn	τὼ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ tṑ ăsphăleíā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς tā̀s ăsphăleíās
Vocative	ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ ăsphắleiă	ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ ăsphăleíā	ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειαι ăsphắleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ασφάλεια (asfáleia) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἀσφάλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀσφάλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀσφάλεια” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἀσφάλεια” in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G803 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.
  • assurance idem, page 48.
  • certainty idem, page 122.
  • conduct idem, page 157.
  • immunity idem, page 418.
  • pass idem, page 595.
  • safe-conduct idem, page 730.
  • safety idem, page 730.
  • security idem, page 747.
  • stability idem, page 808.
• ἀσφάλεια, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011