ἐμπάθεια

See also: εμπάθεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμπαθής (empathḗs, “emotional”) +‎ -εια (-eia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /em.pá.tʰeː.a/ → /emˈpa.θi.a/ → /emˈba.θi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /em.pá.tʰeː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /emˈpa.tʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /emˈpa.θi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /emˈpa.θi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /emˈba.θi.a/

Noun

ἐμπάθειᾰ • (empátheia) f (genitive ἐμπᾰθείᾱς); first declension

1. physical affection
2. passion
3. partiality

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐμπᾰ́θειᾰ; τῆς ἐμπᾰθείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐμπᾰ́θειᾰ hē empátheia	τὼ ἐμπᾰθείᾱ tṑ empatheíā	αἱ ἐμπᾰ́θειαι hai empátheiai
Genitive	τῆς ἐμπᾰθείᾱς tês empatheíās	τοῖν ἐμπᾰθείαιν toîn empatheíain	τῶν ἐμπᾰθειῶν tôn empatheiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐμπᾰθείᾳ têi empatheíāi	τοῖν ἐμπᾰθείαιν toîn empatheíain	ταῖς ἐμπᾰθείαις taîs empatheíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐμπᾰ́θειᾰν tḕn empátheian	τὼ ἐμπᾰθείᾱ tṑ empatheíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐμπᾰθείᾱς tā̀s empatheíās
Vocative	ἐμπᾰ́θειᾰ empátheia	ἐμπᾰθείᾱ empatheíā	ἐμπᾰ́θειαι empátheiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: εμπάθεια (empátheia)
• → Belarusian: эмпа́тыя (empátyja)
• → Bulgarian: емпа́тия (empátija)
• → Catalan: empatia
• → Czech: empatie
• → Dutch: empathie
• → Finnish: empatia
• → French: empathie
• → Georgian: ემპათია (emṗatia)
• → German: Empathie
• → Hebrew: אֶמְפַּתְיָה (empatiá)
• → Hungarian: empátia
• → Indonesian: empati
• → Italian: empatia
• → Macedonian: емпатија (empatija)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: empati
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: empati
• → Polish: empatia
• → Portuguese: empatia
• → Romanian: empatie
• → Russian: эмпа́тия (empátija)
• → Slovak: empatia
• → Spanish: empatía
• → Swedish: empati
• → Turkish: empati
• → Ukrainian: емпа́тія (empátija)

Further reading

• ἐμπάθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐμπάθεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐμπάθεια”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἐμπάθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press