ψυχοστασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “life”) +‎ ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to weigh”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psyː.kʰos.ta.sí.aː/ → /psy.xos.taˈsi.a/ → /psi.xos.taˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psyː.kʰos.ta.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psy.kʰos.taˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psy.xos.taˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psy.xos.taˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psi.xos.taˈsi.a/

Noun

ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (psūkhostasíā) f (genitive ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. weighing of lives

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē psūkhostasíā	τὼ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ psūkhostasíā	αἱ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́αι hai psūkhostasíai
Genitive	τῆς ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês psūkhostasíās	τοῖν ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́αιν toîn psūkhostasíain	τῶν ψῡχοστᾰσῐῶν tôn psūkhostasiôn
Dative	τῇ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi psūkhostasíāi	τοῖν ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́αιν toîn psūkhostasíain	ταῖς ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́αις taîs psūkhostasíais
Accusative	τὴν ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn psūkhostasíān	τὼ ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ psūkhostasíā	τᾱ̀ς ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s psūkhostasíās
Vocative	ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ psūkhostasíā	ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́ᾱ psūkhostasíā	ψῡχοστᾰσῐ́αι psūkhostasíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: psychostasia

References

• “ψυχοστασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ψυχοστασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette