palingenesia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pálin, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpæ.lɪn.d͡ʒɪˈniːzɪ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpæ.lɪn.d͡ʒəˈni.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: pa‧lin‧gen‧e‧sia

Noun

palingenesia (countable and uncountable, plural palingenesias)

1. Rebirth; regeneration.

   Synonym: palingenesis

   • 1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, page 455:

     All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew, and so, in endless palingenesia, lives and works.

   • 1855, Timothy Metcalf Shann, Biblico-Metaphrastic Annotations, page 27:

     The Greek word, palingenesia, is only twice used in the New Testament; namely, here and at Titus iii. 5., and it is in both places translated “regeneration,” a word used, I believe, in no other part of our version of the Scriptures.

   • 1861 July, “Gioberti’s Philosophy of Revelation”, in Brownson’s Review, volume II, number 3, page 310:

     The palingenesia having its first and last cause, as palingenesia, in the Incarnation is strictly supercosmic, supernatural, though it presupposes the natural, and like the cosmos has God for its first and last cause.

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 16:

     Within the soul, within the body social, there must be - if we are to experience long survival - a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. For it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue. Peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence a snare.

   • 2010, Merrill C. Tenney, The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible‎^[1], volume 3:

     The palingenesia, then, of the individual issues in resurrection.

Derived terms

• palingenesis

Translations

rebirth; regeneration — see rebirth,‎ regeneration

Further reading

• palingenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia