ἀποστασία

See also: αποστασία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀπόστασις (apóstasis)

Etymology

From ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “I withdraw, revolt”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pos.ta.sí.aː/ → /a.pos.taˈsi.a/ → /a.pos.taˈsi.a/

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

Noun

ἀποστασίᾱ • (apostasíā) f (genitive ἀποστασίᾱς); first declension

1. defection, revolt, rebellion
2. (religion) apostasy
3. departure

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀποστασῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ hē apostasíā	τὼ ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ tṑ apostasíā	αἱ ἀποστασῐ́αι hai apostasíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀποστασῐ́ᾱς tês apostasíās	τοῖν ἀποστασῐ́αιν toîn apostasíain	τῶν ἀποστασῐῶν tôn apostasiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀποστασῐ́ᾳ têi apostasíāi	τοῖν ἀποστασῐ́αιν toîn apostasíain	ταῖς ἀποστασῐ́αις taîs apostasíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀποστασῐ́ᾱν tḕn apostasíān	τὼ ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ tṑ apostasíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀποστασῐ́ᾱς tā̀s apostasíās
Vocative	ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ apostasíā	ἀποστασῐ́ᾱ apostasíā	ἀποστασῐ́αι apostasíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀποστασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀποστασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀποστασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀποστασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G646 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible