ἐπιληψία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.le̝pˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/

Noun

ἐπῐληψίᾱ • (epilēpsíā) f (genitive ἐπῐληψίᾱς); first declension

1. Alternative form of ἐπίληψις (epílēpsis)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐπῐληψίᾱ; τῆς ἐπῐληψίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐληψίᾱ hē epilēpsíā	τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epilēpsíā	αἱ ἐπῐληψίαι hai epilēpsíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tês epilēpsíās	τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epilēpsíain	τῶν ἐπῐληψιῶν tôn epilēpsiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐληψίᾳ têi epilēpsíāi	τοῖν ἐπῐληψίαιν toîn epilēpsíain	ταῖς ἐπῐληψίαις taîs epilēpsíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐληψίᾱν tḕn epilēpsíān	τὼ ἐπῐληψίᾱ tṑ epilēpsíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐληψίᾱς tā̀s epilēpsíās
Vocative	ἐπῐληψίᾱ epilēpsíā	ἐπῐληψίᾱ epilēpsíā	ἐπῐληψίαι epilēpsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: επιληψία (epilipsía)
• → Asturian: epilepsia
• → Czech: epilepsie
• → Danish: epilepsi
• → Dutch: epilepsie
• → English: epilepsy
• → Esperanto: epilepsio
• → Finnish: epilepsia
• → Middle French: epilepsie
  • French: épilepsie
  • Norman: épilepsie
• → German: Epilepsie
• → Hungarian: epilepszia
• → Norwegian Bokmål: epilepsi
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: epilepsi
• → Polish: epilepsja
• → Portuguese: epilepsia
• → Romanian: epilepsie
• → Russian: эпиле́псия (epilépsija)
• → Slovak: epilepsia
• → Spanish: epilepsia
• → Swedish: epilepsi

Further reading

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