ἐξουσία

See also: εξουσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐξοντ- (exont-, participle) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, verbal adjective suffix), from ἔξεστι (éxesti, “it is possible, it is allowed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.suː.sí.aː/ → /ek.suˈsi.a/ → /ek.suˈsi.a/

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

Noun

ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ • (exousíā) f (genitive ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. power, means, license, or authority to do something.
2. power, authority
3. office, title
4. means, resources
5. pomp

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ hē exousíā	τὼ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ exousíā	αἱ ἐξουσῐ́αι hai exousíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς tês exousíās	τοῖν ἐξουσῐ́αιν toîn exousíain	τῶν ἐξουσῐῶν tôn exousiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐξουσῐ́ᾳ têi exousíāi	τοῖν ἐξουσῐ́αιν toîn exousíain	ταῖς ἐξουσῐ́αις taîs exousíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐξουσῐ́ᾱν tḕn exousíān	τὼ ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ tṑ exousíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s exousíās
Vocative	ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ exousíā	ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ exousíā	ἐξουσῐ́αι exousíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ (eksousia)
• Greek: εξουσία (exousía)

Further reading

• “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐξουσία 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
• G1849 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.
  • authorisation idem, page 53.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • competence idem, page 151.
  • connivance idem, page 161.
  • consent idem, page 162.
  • control idem, page 170.
  • facility idem, page 300.
  • faculty idem, page 301.
  • freedom idem, page 344.
  • immunity idem, page 418.
  • jurisdiction idem, page 466.
  • latitude idem, page 478.
  • leave idem, page 483.
  • liberty idem, page 488.
  • licence idem, page 488.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • power idem, page 630.
  • sanction idem, page 733.
  • scope idem, page 740.
  • strength idem, page 824.
  • sufferance idem, page 835.
  • toleration idem, page 880.
  • warrant idem, page 964.
• “ἐξουσία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011