ἐπιστολή
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See also: επιστολή
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ἐπιστέλλω (epistéllō, “to send a message”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pis.to.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.pis.toˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.pis.toˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.pis.toˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.pis.toˈli/
Noun
[edit]ἐπῐστολή • (epistolḗ) f (genitive ἐπῐστολῆς); first declension
- message, letter
- command, commission, injunction
- dying command, will (legal document)
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐπῐστολή hē epistolḗ |
τὼ ἐπῐστολᾱ́ tṑ epistolā́ |
αἱ ἐπῐστολαί hai epistolaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐπῐστολῆς tês epistolês |
τοῖν ἐπῐστολαῖν toîn epistolaîn |
τῶν ἐπῐστολῶν tôn epistolôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐπῐστολῇ têi epistolêi |
τοῖν ἐπῐστολαῖν toîn epistolaîn |
ταῖς ἐπῐστολαῖς taîs epistolaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐπῐστολήν tḕn epistolḗn |
τὼ ἐπῐστολᾱ́ tṑ epistolā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐστολᾱ́ς tā̀s epistolā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐπῐστολή epistolḗ |
ἐπῐστολᾱ́ epistolā́ |
ἐπῐστολαί epistolaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Coptic: ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲏ (epistolē)
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍀𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌴 (aipistaulē)
- Greek: επιστολή (epistolí)
- → Latin: epistola, epistula
Further reading
[edit]- “ἐπιστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπιστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπιστολή 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
- G1992 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.
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (o-grade)
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension