Ancient Greek

Noun

ἐλπίς • ‎(elpís) f ‎(genitive ἐλπίδος); third declension

1. hope, expectation
2. object of hope
3. anxiety, boding

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: ελπίδα ‎(elpída)

References

• ἐλπίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλπίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλπίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἐλπίς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐλπίς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1680”, 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.
  • anticipation idem, page 32.
  • aspiration idem, page 45.
  • comfort idem, page 145.
  • expectation idem, page 293.
  • hope idem, page 405.
  • hopefulness idem, page 405.
  • promise idem, page 653.
  • prospect idem, page 653.
  • solace idem, page 792.
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