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ἐπιστολή
ἐπιστολή
See also: επιστολή
Ancient Greek
Noun
ἐπῐστολή • (epistolḗ) f (genitive ἐπῐστολῆς); first declension
- message, letter
- command, commission, injunction
- dying command, will (legal document)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐπῐστολή | τὼ ἐπῐστολᾱ́ | αἱ ἐπῐστολαί | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπῐστολῆς | τοῖν ἐπῐστολαῖν | τῶν ἐπῐστολῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπῐστολῇ | τοῖν ἐπῐστολαῖν | ταῖς ἐπῐστολαῖς | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐπῐστολήν | τὼ ἐπῐστολᾱ́ | τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐστολᾱ́ς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπῐστολή | ἐπῐστολᾱ́ | ἐπῐστολαί | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍀𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌴 (aipistaulē)
- Greek: επιστολή (epistolí)
- Latin: epistola
References
- 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’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.