ἀθανασία

See also: αθανασία and Αθανασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾱ̓θᾰ́νᾰτος (āthánatos, “undying”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix). The τ (t) changed to σ (s) by palatalization.

Noun

ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (āthanasíā) f (genitive ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. immortality

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē āthanasíā
Genitive	τῆς ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês āthanasíās
Dative	τῇ ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi āthanasíāi
Accusative	τὴν ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn āthanasíān
Vocative	ᾱ̓θᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ āthanasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: athanasy
• → Polish: atanazja

References

• “ἀθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀθανασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀθανασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G110 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀθανασία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • immortality idem, page 418.