εὐθανασία

See also: ευθανασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ θάνατος (thánatos, “death”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.tʰa.na.sí.aː/ → /eɸ.θa.naˈsi.a/ → /ef.θa.naˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.tʰa.na.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.tʰa.naˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸ.θa.naˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ef.θa.naˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ef.θa.naˈsi.a/

Noun

εὐθᾰνᾰσίᾱ • (euthanasíā) f (genitive εὐθᾰνᾰσίᾱς); first declension

1. easy, happy death
2. noble death

Declension

First declension of ἡ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē euthanasíā
Genitive	τῆς εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês euthanasíās
Dative	τῇ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi euthanasíāi
Accusative	τὴν εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn euthanasíān
Vocative	εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ euthanasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Belarusian: эўтана́зія (eŭtanázija)
• → Catalan: eutanàsia
• → English: euthanasia, euthanasy (archaic)
  • → Japanese: ユーサネイジア (yūsaneijia)
• → Finnish: eutanasia
• → French: euthanasie (see there for further descendants)
• → Galician: eutanasia
• Greek: ευθανασία (efthanasía)
• → Hungarian: eutanázia
• → Indonesian: eutanasia
• → Italian: eutanasia
• → Polish: eutanazja
• → Portuguese: eutanásia
• → Russian: эвтана́зия (evtanázija)
  • → Armenian: էվթանազիա (ēvtʻanazia)
• → Slovak: eutanázia
• → Spanish: eutanasia
• → Ukrainian: евтана́зія (evtanázija), ейтана́зія (ejtanázija)

Further reading

• εὐθανασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “εὐθανασία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “εὐθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press