ὕπαρξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑπάρχω (hupárkhō, “I begin, exist”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.park.sis/ → /ˈy.park.sis/ → /ˈi.park.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.park.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.park.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.park.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.park.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.park.sis/

Noun

ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς • (húparxis) f (genitive ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεως); third declension

1. existence, reality
   1. (logic) existence
   2. (grammar) substantive
   3. (mathematics) positive term
2. substance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς; τῆς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς hē húparxis	τὼ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει tṑ hupárxei	αἱ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις hai hupárxeis
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεως tês hupárxeōs	τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰρξέοιν toîn huparxéoin	τῶν ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεων tôn hupárxeōn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει têi hupárxei	τοῖν ῠ̔πᾰρξέοιν toîn huparxéoin	ταῖς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεσῐ / ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεσῐν taîs hupárxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐν tḕn húparxin	τὼ ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει tṑ hupárxei	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις tā̀s hupárxeis
Vocative	ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐ húparxi	ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξει hupárxei	ῠ̔πᾰ́ρξεις hupárxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• συνύπαρξις (sunúparxis)

Descendants

• Greek: ύπαρξη (ýparxi)

Further reading

• “ὕπαρξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕπαρξις 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
• G5223 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible