εὐτύχημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

εὐτυχέω (eutukhéō, “to have good fortune”) +‎ -μα (-ma, “instance of”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.tý.kʰɛː.ma/ → /eɸˈty.çi.ma/ → /efˈti.çi.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.tý.kʰɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ewˈty.kʰe̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸˈty.çi.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /efˈty.çi.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /efˈti.çi.ma/

Noun

εὐτῠ́χημᾰ • (eutúkhēma) n (genitive εὐτυχήματος); third declension (Attic, Koine)

1. a piece of good luck, a success
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1356
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 217A
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.6

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ εὐτῠ́χημᾰ; τοῦ εὐτῠχήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ εὐτῠ́χημᾰ tò eutúkhēma	τὼ εὐτῠχήμᾰτε tṑ eutukhḗmate	τᾰ̀ εὐτῠχήμᾰτᾰ tà eutukhḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ εὐτῠχήμᾰτος toû eutukhḗmatos	τοῖν εὐτῠχημᾰ́τοιν toîn eutukhēmátoin	τῶν εὐτῠχημᾰ́των tôn eutukhēmátōn
Dative	τῷ εὐτῠχήμᾰτῐ tôi eutukhḗmati	τοῖν εὐτῠχημᾰ́τοιν toîn eutukhēmátoin	τοῖς εὐτῠχήμᾰσῐ / εὐτῠχήμᾰσῐν toîs eutukhḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ εὐτῠ́χημᾰ tò eutúkhēma	τὼ εὐτῠχήμᾰτε tṑ eutukhḗmate	τᾰ̀ εὐτῠχήμᾰτᾰ tà eutukhḗmata
Vocative	εὐτῠ́χημᾰ eutúkhēma	εὐτῠχήμᾰτε eutukhḗmate	εὐτῠχήμᾰτᾰ eutukhḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “εὐτύχημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐτύχημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐτύχημα 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.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • hit idem, page 401.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • stroke idem, page 827.
  • success idem, page 834.