θεραπεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “to heal”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰe.ra.pěː.aː/ → /θe.raˈpi.a/ → /θe.raˈpi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰe.ra.pěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe.raˈpi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θe.raˈpi.a/

Noun

θερᾰπείᾱ • (therapeíā) f (genitive θερᾰπείᾱς); first declension

1. a waiting on service
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.16
2. medical treatment

Inflection

First declension of ἡ θερᾰπείᾱ; τῆς θερᾰπείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θερᾰπείᾱ hē therapeíā	τὼ θερᾰπείᾱ tṑ therapeíā	αἱ θερᾰπεῖαι hai therapeîai
Genitive	τῆς θερᾰπείᾱς tês therapeíās	τοῖν θερᾰπείαιν toîn therapeíain	τῶν θερᾰπειῶν tôn therapeiôn
Dative	τῇ θερᾰπείᾳ têi therapeíāi	τοῖν θερᾰπείαιν toîn therapeíain	ταῖς θερᾰπείαις taîs therapeíais
Accusative	τὴν θερᾰπείᾱν tḕn therapeíān	τὼ θερᾰπείᾱ tṑ therapeíā	τᾱ̀ς θερᾰπείᾱς tā̀s therapeíās
Vocative	θερᾰπείᾱ therapeíā	θερᾰπείᾱ therapeíā	θερᾰπεῖαι therapeîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: teràpia
• → Danish: terapi
• → Dutch: therapie
  • → Indonesian: terapi
• → French: thérapie
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: terapi
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: terapi
  • → Romanian: terapie
  • → Turkish: terapi
• → German: Therapie
• → Georgian: თერაპია (teraṗia)
• → Greek: θεραπεία (therapeía) (learned)
• → Italian: terapia
  • → Maltese: terapija
• → Latin: therapīa
  • → English: therapy
  • → Finnish: terapia
  • → Hungarian: terápia
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: terapi
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: terapi
  • → Ukrainian: терапія (terapija)
• → Latvian: terapija
• → Spanish: terapia

Further reading

• “θεραπεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεραπεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεραπεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2322 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.
  • address idem, page 11.
  • adoration idem, page 13.
  • advance idem, page 13.
  • attendance idem, page 51.
  • attention idem, page 51.
  • canvass idem, page 111.
  • care idem, page 113.
  • courting idem, page 179.
  • deference idem, page 205.
  • devotion idem, page 221.
  • dressing idem, page 252.
  • heed idem, page 394.
  • homage idem, page 403.
  • honour idem, page 404.
  • hygiene idem, page 412.
  • medical idem, page 521.
  • ministration idem, page 531.
  • nursing idem, page 563.
  • regard idem, page 686.
  • respect idem, page 703.
  • reverence idem, page 709.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • superintendence idem, page 839.
  • superstition idem, page 839.
  • supervision idem, page 840.
  • tendance idem, page 861.
  • treatment idem, page 892.
  • veneration idem, page 946.
  • worship idem, page 990.

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Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θe.ɾaˈpi.a/
• Hyphenation: θε‧ρα‧πεί‧α

Noun

θεραπεία • (therapeía) f (plural θεραπείες)

1. (medicine) cure, therapy, remedy

Declension

Declension of θεραπεία

	singular	plural
nominative	θεραπεία •	θεραπείες •
genitive	θεραπείας •	θεραπειών •
accusative	θεραπεία •	θεραπείες •
vocative	θεραπεία •	θεραπείες •

Synonyms

• γιατρειά f (giatreiá) (colloquial)

Derived terms

• ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία f (ilektrospasmotherapeía, “electroconvulsive therapy”)
• ηλιοθεραπεία f (iliotherapeía, “heliotherapy, sun tanning”)
• -θεραπεία (-therapeía) (used with compound terms)
• Μονάδα Εντατική Θεραπείας f (Monáda Entatikí Therapeías, “Intensive Care Unit”)

 

Related terms

• see: θεραπεύω (therapévo, “cure”)