ἐλεημοσύνη

See also: ελεημοσύνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “pitiful, merciful”) +‎ -σῠ́νη (-súnē) from ἐλεέω (eleéō, “have pity on”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/ → /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/ → /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.le.ɛː.mo.sý.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.le.e̝.moˈsy.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsy.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.le.i.moˈsi.ni/

Noun

ἐλεημοσῠ́νη • (eleēmosúnē) f (genitive ἐλεημοσῠ́νης); first declension

1. pity, mercy
2. alms, charity

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη; τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλεημοσῠ́νη hē eleēmosúnē	τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosúnā	αἱ ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι hai eleēmosúnai
Genitive	τῆς ἐλεημοσῠ́νης tês eleēmosúnēs	τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosúnain	τῶν ἐλεημοσῠνῶν tôn eleēmosunôn
Dative	τῇ ἐλεημοσῠ́νῃ têi eleēmosúnēi	τοῖν ἐλεημοσῠ́ναιν toîn eleēmosúnain	ταῖς ἐλεημοσῠ́ναις taîs eleēmosúnais
Accusative	τὴν ἐλεημοσῠ́νην tḕn eleēmosúnēn	τὼ ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ tṑ eleēmosúnā	τᾱ̀ς ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱς tā̀s eleēmosúnās
Vocative	ἐλεημοσῠ́νη eleēmosúnē	ἐλεημοσῠ́νᾱ eleēmosúnā	ἐλεημοσῠ́ναι eleēmosúnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ελεημοσύνη (eleïmosýni)
• → Latin: eleēmosyna (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλεημοσύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλεημοσύνη 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
• ἐλεημοσύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1654 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible