εὐτυχία

See also: ευτυχία and Ευτυχία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εὐτῠχειᾰ (eutukheia) — Poetic

Etymology

εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ τῠ́χη (túkhē, “luck”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix): Compare εὐτυχής (eutukhḗs, “lucky”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.ty.kʰí.aː/ → /eɸ.tyˈçi.a/ → /ef.tiˈçi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.ty.kʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.tyˈkʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸ.tyˈçi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ef.tyˈçi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ef.tiˈçi.a/

Noun

εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ • (eutukhíā) f (genitive εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. good luck

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ hē eutukhíā	τὼ εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ tṑ eutukhíā	αἱ εὐτῠχῐ́αι hai eutukhíai
Genitive	τῆς εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱς tês eutukhíās	τοῖν εὐτῠχῐ́αιν toîn eutukhíain	τῶν εὐτῠχῐῶν tôn eutukhiôn
Dative	τῇ εὐτῠχῐ́ᾳ têi eutukhíāi	τοῖν εὐτῠχῐ́αιν toîn eutukhíain	ταῖς εὐτῠχῐ́αις taîs eutukhíais
Accusative	τὴν εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱν tḕn eutukhíān	τὼ εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ tṑ eutukhíā	τᾱ̀ς εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eutukhíās
Vocative	εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ eutukhíā	εὐτῠχῐ́ᾱ eutukhíā	εὐτῠχῐ́αι eutukhíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ευτυχία f (eftychía, “happiness”)

References

• “εὐτυχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐτυχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐτυχία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “εὐτυχία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blessedness idem, page 83.
  • bliss idem, page 83.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • happiness idem, page 384.
  • joy idem, page 464.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • prosperity idem, page 653.
  • success idem, page 834.
  • weal idem, page 970.
  • welfare idem, page 973.