Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /par̚risía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /par̚risía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paɾisía/

Noun

πᾰρρησῐ́ᾱ • ‎(parrhēsíā) f ‎(genitive παρρησίας); first declension

1. openness, frankness
   • Euripides, Hippolytus 442, (compare Ion 672)
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 668
   • Euripides, The Phoenician Women 391
   • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 541
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 20.C
   • Plato, The Republic 557.B
   • Demosthenes, Second Philippic 31
2. (in a bad sense) licence of tongue
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 229.B, (compare Plato, Phaedrus 240.E)

Inflection

References

• παρρησία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παρρησία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «παρρησία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G3954”, 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.
  • bluffness idem, page 86.
  • bluntness idem, page 86.
  • boldness idem, page 88.
  • candour idem, page 110.
  • frankness idem, page 342.
  • freedom idem, page 343.
  • independence idem, page 432.
  • latitude idem, page 478.
  • openness idem, page 576.
  • outspokenness idem, page 583.
  • plainness idem, page 617.
  • plain-spokenness idem, page 617.
  • speech idem, page 800.