ἀσθένεια

See also: ασθένεια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀσθενείη (astheneíē) — Ionic
• ἀσθενίη (astheníē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”) +‎ -εια (-eia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.tʰé.neː.a/ → /asˈθe.ni.a/ → /asˈθe.ni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.tʰé.neː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈtʰe.ni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈθe.ni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈθe.ni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈθe.ni.a/

Noun

ἀσθένεια • (asthéneia) f (genitive ἀσθενείᾱς); first declension

1. weakness
2. sickness
3. moral weakness, depravity

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀσθένειᾰ; τῆς ἀσθενείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀσθένειᾰ hē asthéneia	τὼ ἀσθενείᾱ tṑ astheneíā	αἱ ἀσθένειαι hai asthéneiai
Genitive	τῆς ἀσθενείᾱς tês astheneíās	τοῖν ἀσθενείαιν toîn astheneíain	τῶν ἀσθενειῶν tôn astheneiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ têi astheneíāi	τοῖν ἀσθενείαιν toîn astheneíain	ταῖς ἀσθενείαις taîs astheneíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀσθένειᾰν tḕn asthéneian	τὼ ἀσθενείᾱ tṑ astheneíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀσθενείᾱς tā̀s astheneíās
Vocative	ἀσθένειᾰ asthéneia	ἀσθενείᾱ astheneíā	ἀσθένειαι asthéneiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: astènia
• → English: asthenia
• → French: asthénie
  • → Russian: астени́я (asteníja)
  • → Ukrainian: астені́я (asteníja)
• → German: Asthenie
• > Greek: ασθένεια (asthéneia) (inherited)

Further reading

• “ἀσθένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀσθένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀσθένεια 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
• ἀσθένεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G769 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.
  • ailment idem, page 21.
  • complaint idem, page 151.
  • debility idem, page 199.
  • decrepitude idem, page 202.
  • delicacy idem, page 207.
  • disease idem, page 232.
  • enfeeblement idem, page 273.
  • faintness idem, page 302.
  • feebleness idem, page 313.
  • frailty idem, page 342.
  • ill health idem, page 414.
  • illness idem, page 416.
  • indisposition idem, page 434.
  • infirmity idem, page 438.
  • languor idem, page 476.
  • malady idem, page 509.
  • sickliness idem, page 772.
  • sickness idem, page 772.
  • tenderness idem, page 861.
  • weakness idem, page 970.