ἐπαγγελία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπαγγέλλω (epangéllō, “to announce, promise”) (from ἐπι- (epi-, “on”) + ἀγγέλλω (angéllō, “to announce”)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.paŋ.ɡe.lí.aː/ → /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/ → /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.paŋ.ɡe.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.paŋ.ɡeˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/

Noun

ἐπαγγελίᾱ • (epangelíā) f (genitive ἐπαγγελίᾱς); first declension

1. announcement
2. promise

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐπαγγελίᾱ; τῆς ἐπαγγελίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπαγγελίᾱ hē epangelíā	τὼ ἐπαγγελίᾱ tṑ epangelíā	αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι hai epangelíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπαγγελίᾱς tês epangelíās	τοῖν ἐπαγγελίαιν toîn epangelíain	τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν tôn epangeliôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπαγγελίᾳ têi epangelíāi	τοῖν ἐπαγγελίαιν toîn epangelíain	ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις taîs epangelíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπαγγελίᾱν tḕn epangelíān	τὼ ἐπαγγελίᾱ tṑ epangelíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπαγγελίᾱς tā̀s epangelíās
Vocative	ἐπαγγελίᾱ epangelíā	ἐπαγγελίᾱ epangelíā	ἐπαγγελίαι epangelíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐπαγγελία 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
• G1860 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.
  • offer idem, page 571.