ἐλευθεριότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐλευθέριος (eleuthérios) +‎ -της (-tēs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.tʰe.ri.ó.tɛːs/ → /e.leɸ.θe.riˈo.tis/ → /e.lef.θe.riˈo.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.tʰe.ri.ó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.lew.tʰe.riˈo.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.leɸ.θe.riˈo.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.lef.θe.riˈo.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.lef.θe.riˈo.tis/

Noun

ἐλευθεριότης • (eleutheriótēs) f (genitive ἐλευθεριότητος); third declension

1. liberality

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐλευθεριότης; τῆς ἐλευθεριότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλευθεριότης hē eleutheriótēs	τὼ ἐλευθεριότητε tṑ eleutheriótēte	αἱ ἐλευθεριότητες hai eleutheriótētes
Genitive	τῆς ἐλευθεριότητος tês eleutheriótētos	τοῖν ἐλευθεριοτήτοιν toîn eleutheriotḗtoin	τῶν ἐλευθεριοτήτων tôn eleutheriotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ ἐλευθεριότητῐ têi eleutheriótēti	τοῖν ἐλευθεριοτήτοιν toîn eleutheriotḗtoin	ταῖς ἐλευθεριότησῐ / ἐλευθεριότησῐν taîs eleutheriótēsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐλευθεριότητᾰ tḕn eleutheriótēta	τὼ ἐλευθεριότητε tṑ eleutheriótēte	τᾱ̀ς ἐλευθεριότητᾰς tā̀s eleutheriótētas
Vocative	ἐλευθεριότης eleutheriótēs	ἐλευθεριότητε eleutheriótēte	ἐλευθεριότητες eleutheriótētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Descendants

• → Greek: ελευθεριότητα (eleftheriótita) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἐλευθεριότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλευθεριότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλευθεριότης 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.
  • generosity idem, page 356.
  • liberality idem, page 488.
  • munificence idem, page 546.