εὔψυχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “spirit, soul”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ěu̯p.syː.kʰos/ → /ˈeɸp.sy.xos/ → /ˈefp.si.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ěu̯p.syː.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈewp.sy.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈeɸp.sy.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈefp.sy.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈefp.si.xos/

Adjective

εὔψῡχος • (eúpsūkhos) m or f (neuter εὔψῡχον); second declension

1. of good courage, stout of heart
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 394
   • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 510
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.20
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.39
     , 2.43, 4.126, 2.11
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hipparchicus 8.21
2. (in comparative) cooling
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.14.1

Declension

Second declension of εὔψῡχος; εὔψῡχον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		εὔψῡχος eúpsūkhos	εὔψῡχον eúpsūkhon		εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō	εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō		εὔψῡχοι eúpsūkhoi	εὔψῡχᾰ eúpsūkha
Genitive		εὐψῡ́χου eupsū́khou	εὐψῡ́χου eupsū́khou		εὐψῡ́χοιν eupsū́khoin	εὐψῡ́χοιν eupsū́khoin		εὐψῡ́χων eupsū́khōn	εὐψῡ́χων eupsū́khōn
Dative		εὐψῡ́χῳ eupsū́khōi	εὐψῡ́χῳ eupsū́khōi		εὐψῡ́χοιν eupsū́khoin	εὐψῡ́χοιν eupsū́khoin		εὐψῡ́χοις eupsū́khois	εὐψῡ́χοις eupsū́khois
Accusative		εὔψῡχον eúpsūkhon	εὔψῡχον eúpsūkhon		εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō	εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō		εὐψῡ́χους eupsū́khous	εὔψῡχᾰ eúpsūkha
Vocative		εὔψῡχε eúpsūkhe	εὔψῡχον eúpsūkhon		εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō	εὐψῡ́χω eupsū́khō		εὔψῡχοι eúpsūkhoi	εὔψῡχᾰ eúpsūkha
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		εὐψῡ́χως eupsū́khōs			εὐψῡχότερος eupsūkhóteros			εὐψῡχότᾰτος eupsūkhótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• εὐψυχία (eupsukhía)
• εὐψυχέω (eupsukhéō)

Descendants

• → Polish: dobroduszny (calque)
• → Russian: доброду́шный (dobrodúšnyj) (calque)

References

• “εὔψυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὔψυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὔψυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bold idem, page 88.
  • brave idem, page 93.
  • courageous idem, page 178.
  • gallant idem, page 352.
  • undaunted idem, page 911.