πάθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πάσχω (paskhō, “I feel, suffer”) (aorist: ἔπαθον (epathon)). Also see πένθος (penthos).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /pátʰos/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /pátʰos/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /páθos/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /páθos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /páθos/

Noun

πάθος (genitive πάθεος, πάθους) n, third declension; (pathos)

1. pain, suffering, death
2. misfortune, calamity, disaster, misery
3. any strong feeling, passion
4. condition, state
5. incident
6. modification of words

Inflection

Third declension of πάθος, πάθεος (uncontracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πάθος	πάθεε	πάθεᾰ
Genitive	πάθεος	παθέοιν	παθέων
Dative	πάθεϊ	παθέοιν	πάθεσσῐ(ν)
Accusative	πάθος	πάθεε	πάθεᾰ
Vocative	πάθος	πάθεε	πάθεᾰ

This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. πάθεσος), which was dropped early on in the history of Ancient Greek.

Third declension of πάθος, πάθους (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πάθος	πάθει	πάθη
Genitive	πάθους	παθοῖν	παθῶν
Dative	πάθει	παθοῖν	πάθεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	πάθος	πάθει	πάθη
Vocative	πάθος	πάθει	πάθη

The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm.

Descendants

• Russian: пафос (páfos) m

References

• LSJ
• BDAG
• Strong’s concordance number: G3806
• Robert S. P. Beekes (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill Academic Publishers)

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάθος (pathos).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈpaθos]
• Hyphenation: πά‧θος

Noun

πάθος (páthos) n,   plural πάθη

1. pathos
2. empathy
3. disease, misfortune, suffering, loss, grief
4. passion, affection
5. animosity
6. grudge
7. occurrence, accident

Inflection

declension of πάθος

	singular (ενικός)	plural (πληθυντικός)
nominative (ονομαστική)	πάθος	πάθη
genitive (γενική)	πάθους	παθών
accusative (αιτιατική)	πάθος	πάθη
vocative (κλητική)	πάθος	πάθη

Derived terms

• -πάθεια
• πάσχω
• παθαίνω
• πάθημα
• παθιάζω
• παθιάζομαι
• παθιασμένος
• παθητικός
• παθητική