καινότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καινός (kainós, “new”) +‎ -της (-tēs, suffix forming nouns of state).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kai̯.nó.tɛːs/ → /cɛˈno.tis/ → /ceˈno.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kai̯.nó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kɛˈno.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cɛˈno.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ceˈno.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ceˈno.tis/

Noun

καινότης • (kainótēs) f (genitive καινότητος); third declension

1. newness, freshness
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 13
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Ep. 18
2. novelty
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.38
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 2
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Amm. 2 3
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Nicocles 41
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Historiae Romanae 44.3
3. (biblical, Christianity) the new state of eternal life given by the Holy Spirit
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 6:4
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 7:6

Declension

Third declension of ἡ καινότης; τῆς καινότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ καινότης hē kainótēs	τὼ καινότητε tṑ kainótēte	αἱ καινότητες hai kainótētes
Genitive	τῆς καινότητος tês kainótētos	τοῖν καινοτήτοιν toîn kainotḗtoin	τῶν καινοτήτων tôn kainotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ καινότητῐ têi kainótēti	τοῖν καινοτήτοιν toîn kainotḗtoin	ταῖς καινότησῐ / καινότησῐν taîs kainótēsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν καινότητᾰ tḕn kainótēta	τὼ καινότητε tṑ kainótēte	τᾱ̀ς καινότητᾰς tā̀s kainótētas
Vocative	καινότης kainótēs	καινότητε kainótēte	καινότητες kainótētes
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.

References

• “καινότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καινότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καινότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2538 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.
  • extravagance idem, page 297.
  • freshness idem, page 345.
  • newness idem, page 557.
  • novelty idem, page 562.
  • originality idem, page 580.
  • strangeness idem, page 823.
  • uncommonness idem, page 910.
  • unfamiliarity idem, page 917.
  • unwontedness idem, page 937.