Ancient Greek

Noun

λατρεία • ‎(latreía) f ‎(genitive λατρείας); first declension

1. service
2. worship

Descendants

• English: -latry
• Latin: latria

References

• λατρεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λατρεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «λατρεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2999”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attendance idem, page 51.
  • hired service idem, page 401.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • worship idem, page 990.

Greek

Noun

λατρεία • ‎(latreía) f

1. adoration, loving devotion
2. darling, the person whom one adores
3. worship
4. a cult

Declension

Related terms

• λάτρης m ‎(látris, “worshipper”)
• λάτρισσα f ‎(látrissa, “worshipper”)