ἔνστασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐνίστημι (enístēmi, “I displace”) from ἐν (en, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /éns.ta.sis/ → /ˈens.ta.sis/ → /ˈens.ta.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /éns.ta.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈens.ta.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈens.ta.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈens.ta.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈens.ta.sis/

Noun

ἔνστᾰσῐς • (énstasis) f (genitive ἐνστᾰ́σεως); third declension

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Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἔνστᾰσῐς; τῆς ἐνστᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔνστᾰσῐς hē énstasis	τὼ ἐνστᾰ́σει tṑ enstásei	αἱ ἐνστᾰ́σεις hai enstáseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐνστᾰ́σεως tês enstáseōs	τοῖν ἐνστᾰσέοιν toîn enstaséoin	τῶν ἐνστᾰ́σεων tôn enstáseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐνστᾰ́σει têi enstásei	τοῖν ἐνστᾰσέοιν toîn enstaséoin	ταῖς ἐνστᾰ́σεσῐ / ἐνστᾰ́σεσῐν taîs enstásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔνστᾰσῐν tḕn énstasin	τὼ ἐνστᾰ́σει tṑ enstásei	τᾱ̀ς ἐνστᾰ́σεις tā̀s enstáseis
Vocative	ἔνστᾰσῐ énstasi	ἐνστᾰ́σει enstásei	ἐνστᾰ́σεις enstáseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἔνστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔνστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔνστασις 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
• ἔνστασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1611 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible