ἐνέργεια
See also: ενέργεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐνεργής (energḗs) + -ιᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.nér.ɡeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈner.ɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈner.ʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈner.ʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈner.ʝi.a/
Noun
ἐνέργειᾰ • (enérgeia) f (genitive ἐνεργείᾱς); first declension
- activity, operation, vigour
- workmanship
- supernatural action, cosmic force
- (grammar) the active voice
- the active principle in Aristotelian ontology (Latin actus)
- actuality (Aristotelian philosophy)
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐνέργειᾰ hē enérgeia |
τὼ ἐνεργείᾱ tṑ energeíā |
αἱ ἐνέργειαι hai enérgeiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐνεργείᾱς tês energeíās |
τοῖν ἐνεργείαιν toîn energeíain |
τῶν ἐνεργειῶν tôn energeiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ têi energeíāi |
τοῖν ἐνεργείαιν toîn energeíain |
ταῖς ἐνεργείαις taîs energeíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐνέργειᾰν tḕn enérgeian |
τὼ ἐνεργείᾱ tṑ energeíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐνεργείᾱς tā̀s energeíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐνέργειᾰ enérgeia |
ἐνεργείᾱ energeíā |
ἐνέργειαι enérgeiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: energy
- French: énergie
- German: Energie
- Greek: ενέργεια (enérgeia)
- → Romanian: energie
- Russian: эне́ргия f (enérgija)
Further reading
- “ἐνέργεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐνέργεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐνέργεια 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
- ἐνέργεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1753 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werǵ-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ια
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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