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#*::: and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the sea, those having '''life''', and the third of the ships were destroyed. |
#*::: and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the sea, those having '''life''', and the third of the ships were destroyed. |
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# {{label|grc|poetic}} [[life]]-[[breath]], [[life]]-[[blood]] (''‘the state of being alive’ made corporeal'') |
# {{label|grc|poetic}} [[life]]-[[breath]], [[life]]-[[blood]] (''‘the state of being alive’ made corporeal'') |
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#* {{Q|grc|Homer|Iliad|14|516|thru=519|quote=Ἀτρεΐδης δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν / οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην, διὰ δ᾽ ἔντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσε<br>δῃώσας: '''ψυχὴ''' δὲ κατ᾽ οὐταμένην ὠτειλὴν / ἔσσυτ᾽ ἐπειγομένη, τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε.|transauthor=Robert Fagles|transyear=1990|trans=Menelaus took the hardened captain Hyperenor, / gouged his flank and the bronze ripped him open,<br>spurting his entrails out — and his '''life[-blood]''', gushing forth / through the raw, yawning wound, went pulsing fast<br>and the dark came siwrling down across his eyes.}} |
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#* Homer, ''Ἰλιάς'' (''Iliad''), book 14, lines 516–19: |
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#* {{Q|grc|Homer|Iliad|16|505|quote=τοῖο δ᾽ ἅμα '''ψυχήν''' τε καὶ ἔγχεος ἐξέρυσ᾽ αἰχμήν.|transauthor=Robert Fagles|transyear=1990|trans=so he dragged out both the man's '''life breath''' and the weapon's point together.}} |
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#*: Ἀτρεΐδης δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν / οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην, διὰ δ᾽ ἔντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσε |
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#*: δῃώσας: '''ψυχὴ''' δὲ κατ᾽ οὐταμένην ὠτειλὴν / ἔσσυτ᾽ ἐπειγομένη, τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε. |
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#*:: Robert Fagles’ translation (1990): |
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#*::: Menelaus took the hardened captain Hyperenor, / gouged his flank and the bronze ripped him open, |
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#*::: spurting his entrails out — and his '''life[-blood]''', gushing forth / through the raw, yawning wound, went pulsing fast |
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#*::: and the dark came siwrling down across his eyes. |
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#* Homer, ''Ἰλιάς'' (''Iliad''), book 16, line 505: |
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#*: τοῖο δ᾽ ἅμα '''ψυχήν''' τε καὶ ἔγχεος ἐξέρυσ᾽ αἰχμήν. |
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#*:: Robert Fagles’ translation (1990): |
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#*::: so he dragged out both the man's '''life breath''' and the weapon's point together. |
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# [[soul]] (''the immortal part of a person'') |
# [[soul]] (''the immortal part of a person'') |
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#* {{Q|grc|Homer|Iliad|1|1|thru=5|quote=μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε,<br>πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους '''ψυχὰς''' Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν / ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν<br>οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή.|transauthor=Robert Fagles|transyear=1990|trans=Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / [...] doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,<br>hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy [...]<!--the excision makes the translation match the original text more closely--> / great fighters’ '''souls''', but made their bodies carrion,<br>feasts for the dogs and birds, / and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.}} |
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#* Homer, ''Ἰλιάς'' (''Iliad''), book 1, lines 1–5: |
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#*: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε, |
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#*: πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους '''ψυχὰς''' Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν / ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν |
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#*: οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή. |
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#*:: Robert Fagles’ translation (1990): |
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#*::: Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / [...] doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, |
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#*::: hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy [...]<!--the excision makes the translation match the original text more closely--> / great fighters’ '''souls''', but made their bodies carrion, |
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#*::: feasts for the dogs and birds, / and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. |
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# [[ghost]] (''the spirit of a dead person'') |
# [[ghost]] (''the spirit of a dead person'') |
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#* Homer, ''Ὀδύσσεια'' (''Odyssey''), book 23, lines 362–363, and book 24, lines 1–2: |
#* Homer, ''Ὀδύσσεια'' (''Odyssey''), book 23, lines 362–363, and book 24, lines 1–2: |
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#*::: Now Cyllenian Hermes called away the suitors' '''ghosts''', [...] |
#*::: Now Cyllenian Hermes called away the suitors' '''ghosts''', [...] |
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# the [[mind]] (''seat or organ of thought''), (the faculty of) [[reason]] |
# the [[mind]] (''seat or organ of thought''), (the faculty of) [[reason]] |
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⚫ | #* {{Q|grc|Xenophon|Economics|6|16|quote=ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἄρα εἶχεν οὕτως, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνίους ἐδόκουν καταμανθάνειν τῶν καλῶν τὰς μορφὰς πάνυ μοχθηροὺς ὄντας τὰς '''ψυχάς'''.|transauthor=E. C. Marchant, O. J. Todd and William Heinemann|transyear=1979|trans=But after all, it was not so: I thought I discovered that some who were beautiful to look at were thoroughly depraved in their '''minds'''.}} |
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#* Xenophon, ''Οἰκονομικων'' (''Economics''), chapter 6, section 16: |
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#*:: E. C. Marchant, O. J. Todd and William Heinemann’s translation (1979): |
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#*::: But after all, it was not so: I thought I discovered that some who were beautiful to look at were thoroughly depraved in their '''minds'''. |
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# [[spirit]] ([[animate]]d attitude) |
# [[spirit]] ([[animate]]d attitude) |
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⚫ | #* {{Q|grc|Xenophon|On Horsemanship|11|1|quote=ἢν δέ τις ἄρα βουληθῇ καὶ πομπικῷ καὶ μετεώρῳ καὶ λαμπρῷ ἵππῳ χρήσασθαι, οὐ μάλα μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐκ παντὸς ἵππου γίγνεται, ἀλλὰ δεῖ ὑπάρξαι αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν '''ψυχὴν''' μεγαλόφρονα καὶ τὸ σῶμα εὔρωστον.|transauthor=Henry Graham Dakyns|transyear=c. 1898|trans=If, however, the wish is to secure a horse adapted to parade and state processions, a high stepper and a showy animal, these are qualities not to be found combined in every horse, but to begin with, the animal must have high '''spirit''' and a stalwart body.}} |
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#* Xenophon, ''Ἱππαρχικὸς ἢ περὶ ἱππικῆς'' (''On Horsemanship''), chapter 11, section 1: |
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⚫ | #* {{Q|grc|Pindar|I.|53|thru=55|quote=Θηβᾶν ἀπὸ Καδμεϊᾶν μορφὰν βραχύς, '''ψυχὰν''' δ᾽ ἄκαμπτος, προσπαλαίσων ἦλθ᾽ ἀνὴρ / τὰν πυροφόρον Λιβύαν, κρανίοις ὄφρα ξένων ναὸν Ποσειδάωνος ἐρέφοντα σχέθοι, / υἱὸς Ἀλκμήνας|transauthor=Diane Svarlien|transyear=1990|trans=And yet once there went from Thebes, Cadmus’ city, a hero short in stature but unflinching in '''spirit'''. This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon's temple with the skulls of strangers, Alcmena's son.}} |
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#*:: Henry Graham Dakyns’ translation (circa 1898): |
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#*::: If, however, the wish is to secure a horse adapted to parade and state processions, a high stepper and a showy animal, these are qualities not to be found combined in every horse, but to begin with, the animal must have high '''spirit''' and a stalwart body. |
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#* Pindar, ''Ισθμιόνικοι, Μελισσῳ Θηβαίῳ Παγκρατίῳ'' (''Isthmian Ode 4''), lines 53–55: |
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#*:: Diane Svarlien’s translation (1990) |
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#*::: And yet once there went from Thebes, Cadmus’ city, a hero short in stature but unflinching in '''spirit'''. This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon's temple with the skulls of strangers, Alcmena's son. |
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# {{label|grc|rare|extended from the meaning ‘soul’}} [[butterfly]] |
# {{label|grc|rare|extended from the meaning ‘soul’}} [[butterfly]] |
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⚫ | #* {{Q|grc|Aristotle|History of Animals|5|19|quote=Γίνονται δ᾽ αἱ μὲν καλούμεναι '''ψυχαὶ''' ἐκ τῶν καμπῶν, αἳ γίνονται ἐπὶ τῶν φύλλων τῶν χλωρῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῆς ῥαφάνου, ἣν καλοῦσί τινες κράμβην.|trans=Those arise — those which one calls '''butterflies (psukhai)''' — out of those caterpillars which arise on leaves of green, especially on the [leaves] of the cabbage-plant ([[w:Raphanus|raphanos]]), which some call cabbage ([[w:Crambe|krambē]]).}} |
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#* Aristotle, ''Περὶ Τὰ Ζῷα Ἱστορίαι'' (''History of Animals''), book 5, section 19: |
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#*:: Those arise — those which one calls '''butterflies (psukhai)''' — out of those caterpillars which arise on leaves of green, especially on the [leaves] of the cabbage-plant ([[w:Raphanus|raphanos]]), which some call cabbage ([[w:Crambe|krambē]]). |
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Revision as of 21:59, 24 February 2016
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ψύχω (psúkhō, “I blow”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
ψυχή • (psukhḗ) f (genitive ψυχῆς); first declension
- life (the state of being alive)
- Revelation 8:9 (text according to Stephanus (1550) and Scrivener (1894))
- καὶ ἀπέθανεν τὸ τρίτον τῶν κτισμάτων τῶν ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ τὰ ἔχοντα ψυχὰς καὶ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθαρη.
- Young’s Literal Translation (1862):
- and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.
- Young’s Literal Translation (1862):
- καὶ ἀπέθανεν τὸ τρίτον τῶν κτισμάτων τῶν ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ τὰ ἔχοντα ψυχὰς καὶ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθαρη.
- Revelation 8:9 (text according to Stephanus (1550) and Scrivener (1894))
- (poetic) life-breath, life-blood (‘the state of being alive’ made corporeal)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.516–519:
- Ἀτρεΐδης δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν / οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην, διὰ δ᾽ ἔντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσε
δῃώσας: ψυχὴ δὲ κατ᾽ οὐταμένην ὠτειλὴν / ἔσσυτ᾽ ἐπειγομένη, τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε.- Atreḯdēs d᾽ ár᾽ épeith᾽ Huperḗnora poiména laôn / oûta katà lapárēn, dià d᾽ éntera khalkòs áphusse
dēiṓsas: psukhḕ dè kat᾽ outaménēn ōteilḕn / éssut᾽ epeigoménē, tòn dè skótos ósse kálupse.
- 1990 translation by Robert Fagles
- Menelaus took the hardened captain Hyperenor, / gouged his flank and the bronze ripped him open,
spurting his entrails out — and his life[-blood], gushing forth / through the raw, yawning wound, went pulsing fast
and the dark came siwrling down across his eyes.
- Menelaus took the hardened captain Hyperenor, / gouged his flank and the bronze ripped him open,
- Atreḯdēs d᾽ ár᾽ épeith᾽ Huperḗnora poiména laôn / oûta katà lapárēn, dià d᾽ éntera khalkòs áphusse
- Ἀτρεΐδης δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν / οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην, διὰ δ᾽ ἔντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσε
- soul (the immortal part of a person)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.1–5:
- μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε,
πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν / ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή.- mênin áeide theà Pēlēïádeō Akhilêos / ouloménēn, hḕ murí᾽ Akhaioîs álge᾽ éthēke,
pollàs d᾽ iphthímous psukhàs Áïdi proḯapsen / hērṓōn, autoùs dè helṓria teûkhe kúnessin
oiōnoîsí te pâsi, Diòs d᾽ eteleíeto boulḗ.
- 1990 translation by Robert Fagles
- Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / [...] doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy [...] / great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion,
feasts for the dogs and birds, / and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
- Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / [...] doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
- mênin áeide theà Pēlēïádeō Akhilêos / ouloménēn, hḕ murí᾽ Akhaioîs álge᾽ éthēke,
- μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε,
- ghost (the spirit of a dead person)
- Homer, Ὀδύσσεια (Odyssey), book 23, lines 362–363, and book 24, lines 1–2:
- αὐτίκα γὰρ φάτις εἶσιν ἅμ᾽ ἠελίῳ ἀνιόντι / ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων, οὓς ἔκτανον ἐν μεγάροισιν:
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- Ἑρμῆς δὲ ψυχὰς Κυλλήνιος ἐξεκαλεῖτο / ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων: [...]
- Robert Fagles’ translation (1996):
- [Go] quick as the rising sun the news will spread / of the suitors that I killed inside the house.
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- Now Cyllenian Hermes called away the suitors' ghosts, [...]
- Robert Fagles’ translation (1996):
- Homer, Ὀδύσσεια (Odyssey), book 23, lines 362–363, and book 24, lines 1–2:
- the mind (seat or organ of thought), (the faculty of) reason
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Economics 6.16:
- ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἄρα εἶχεν οὕτως, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνίους ἐδόκουν καταμανθάνειν τῶν καλῶν τὰς μορφὰς πάνυ μοχθηροὺς ὄντας τὰς ψυχάς.
- all᾽ ouk ára eîkhen hoútōs, all᾽ eníous edókoun katamanthánein tôn kalôn tàs morphàs pánu mokhthēroùs óntas tàs psukhás.
- 1979 translation by E. C. Marchant, O. J. Todd and William Heinemann
- But after all, it was not so: I thought I discovered that some who were beautiful to look at were thoroughly depraved in their minds.
- ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἄρα εἶχεν οὕτως, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνίους ἐδόκουν καταμανθάνειν τῶν καλῶν τὰς μορφὰς πάνυ μοχθηροὺς ὄντας τὰς ψυχάς.
- spirit (animated attitude)
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 11.1:
- ἢν δέ τις ἄρα βουληθῇ καὶ πομπικῷ καὶ μετεώρῳ καὶ λαμπρῷ ἵππῳ χρήσασθαι, οὐ μάλα μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐκ παντὸς ἵππου γίγνεται, ἀλλὰ δεῖ ὑπάρξαι αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν μεγαλόφρονα καὶ τὸ σῶμα εὔρωστον.
- ḕn dé tis ára boulēthêi kaì pompikôi kaì meteṓrōi kaì lamprôi híppōi khrḗsasthai, ou mála mèn tà toiaûta ek pantòs híppou gígnetai, allà deî hupárxai autôi kaì tḕn psukhḕn megalóphrona kaì tò sôma eúrōston.
- c. 1898 translation by Henry Graham Dakyns
- If, however, the wish is to secure a horse adapted to parade and state processions, a high stepper and a showy animal, these are qualities not to be found combined in every horse, but to begin with, the animal must have high spirit and a stalwart body.
- ἢν δέ τις ἄρα βουληθῇ καὶ πομπικῷ καὶ μετεώρῳ καὶ λαμπρῷ ἵππῳ χρήσασθαι, οὐ μάλα μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐκ παντὸς ἵππου γίγνεται, ἀλλὰ δεῖ ὑπάρξαι αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν μεγαλόφρονα καὶ τὸ σῶμα εὔρωστον.
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 53–55:
- Θηβᾶν ἀπὸ Καδμεϊᾶν μορφὰν βραχύς, ψυχὰν δ᾽ ἄκαμπτος, προσπαλαίσων ἦλθ᾽ ἀνὴρ / τὰν πυροφόρον Λιβύαν, κρανίοις ὄφρα ξένων ναὸν Ποσειδάωνος ἐρέφοντα σχέθοι, / υἱὸς Ἀλκμήνας
- Thēbân apò Kadmeïân morphàn brakhús, psukhàn d᾽ ákamptos, prospalaísōn êlth᾽ anḕr / tàn purophóron Libúan, kraníois óphra xénōn naòn Poseidáōnos eréphonta skhéthoi, / huiòs Alkmḗnas
- 1990 translation by Diane Svarlien
- And yet once there went from Thebes, Cadmus’ city, a hero short in stature but unflinching in spirit. This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon's temple with the skulls of strangers, Alcmena's son.
- Θηβᾶν ἀπὸ Καδμεϊᾶν μορφὰν βραχύς, ψυχὰν δ᾽ ἄκαμπτος, προσπαλαίσων ἦλθ᾽ ἀνὴρ / τὰν πυροφόρον Λιβύαν, κρανίοις ὄφρα ξένων ναὸν Ποσειδάωνος ἐρέφοντα σχέθοι, / υἱὸς Ἀλκμήνας
- (rare, extended from the meaning ‘soul’) butterfly
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.19:
- Γίνονται δ᾽ αἱ μὲν καλούμεναι ψυχαὶ ἐκ τῶν καμπῶν, αἳ γίνονται ἐπὶ τῶν φύλλων τῶν χλωρῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῆς ῥαφάνου, ἣν καλοῦσί τινες κράμβην.
- Gínontai d᾽ hai mèn kaloúmenai psukhaì ek tôn kampôn, haì gínontai epì tôn phúllōn tôn khlōrôn, kaì málista epì tês rhaphánou, hḕn kaloûsí tines krámbēn.
- Those arise — those which one calls butterflies (psukhai) — out of those caterpillars which arise on leaves of green, especially on the [leaves] of the cabbage-plant (raphanos), which some call cabbage (krambē).
- Γίνονται δ᾽ αἱ μὲν καλούμεναι ψυχαὶ ἐκ τῶν καμπῶν, αἳ γίνονται ἐπὶ τῶν φύλλων τῶν χλωρῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῆς ῥαφάνου, ἣν καλοῦσί τινες κράμβην.
Inflection
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Nominative | ἡ ψυχή hē psukhḗ |
τὼ ψυχᾱ́ tṑ psukhā́ |
αἱ ψυχαί hai psukhaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ψυχῆς tês psukhês |
τοῖν ψυχαῖν toîn psukhaîn |
τῶν ψυχῶν tôn psukhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ψυχῇ têi psukhêi |
τοῖν ψυχαῖν toîn psukhaîn |
ταῖς ψυχαῖς taîs psukhaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ψυχήν tḕn psukhḗn |
τὼ ψυχᾱ́ tṑ psukhā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ψυχᾱ́ς tā̀s psukhā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ψυχή psukhḗ |
ψυχᾱ́ psukhā́ |
ψυχαί psukhaí | ||||||||||
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Quotations
- Luke 21:19 (text according to Stephanus (1550), Westcott-Hort (1881) and Scrivener (1894))
- ἐν τῇ ὑπομονῇ ὑμῶν κτήσασθε τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν
- in your patience possess ye your souls. (YLT, KJV)
- Stand firm, and you will win life. (NIV)
- ἐν τῇ ὑπομονῇ ὑμῶν κτήσασθε τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν
- Pindar, Νεμεόνικοι, Χρομιῳ Αιτναιῳ Αρματι (Nemean Ode 9), lines 37-39:
- παῦροι δὲ βουλεῦσαι φόνου / παρποδίου νεφέλαν τρέψαι ποτὶ / δυσμενέων ἀνδρῶν στίχας / χερσὶ καὶ ψυχᾷ δυνατοί
- cited by Liddell and Scott as an example of "ψυχή" meaning "the conscious self or personality as centre of emotions, desires, and affections"
- Diane Svarlien’s translation (1990):
- But few are able to conspire with hand and heart to turn back against the ranks of the enemy the cloud of slaughter that presses close upon them.
- Dawson Turner’s prose translation (1852):
- But few are able to counsel how with hands and soul to turn the cloud of war that is upon them upon the ranks of the enemies.
- Abraham Moore’s metrical translation (1852):
- Few are the fiery souls that know, / When war's fierce tempest heaviest falls, / Back on th' assailant's arms and wavering ranks / With hand and heart to turn / The wasteful wreck.
- παῦροι δὲ βουλεῦσαι φόνου / παρποδίου νεφέλαν τρέψαι ποτὶ / δυσμενέων ἀνδρῶν στίχας / χερσὶ καὶ ψυχᾷ δυνατοί
Derived terms
- ψυχικός (psukhikós)
Descendants
References
- BDAG
- ψυχή in An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1899: "breath; the life, spirit"
- “ψυχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G5590 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 2006, Steven Paul, The Apocalypse Letter by Letter: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Revelation, page 281 (discussing Revelation 8:9): "The literal meaning of the noun “ψυχή” [psykhë, or psyche] is “breath”; hence, like “πνεῦμα” [pneuma], it can also mean “spirit, soul, mind.”"
- 2007, Leon Marvell, Transfigured light: philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary (ISBN 978-1-933146-27-0), page 128: "the psyche (the term derives from ψυχη, the breath, and ψυχειν, to breathe)"
Greek
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): [psiˈçi] - (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Hyphenation: ψυ‧χή
Noun
ψυχή • (psychí) f (plural ψυχές)
- soul
- human, man
- the emotional and moral world
- courage, courageousness
- one who incites courage
- butterfly
Declension
Declension of ψυχή
Related terms
- εν βρασμώ ψυχής (en vrasmó psychís)
- μια ψυχή που είναι να βγει (mia psychí pou eínai na vgei)
- πήγε η ψυχή μου στην Κούλουρη (píge i psychí mou stin Koúlouri)
- ψυχάκι (psycháki)
- ψυχάρα (psychára)
- ψυχή τε και σώματι (psychí te kai sómati)
- ψυχικά (psychiká)
- ψυχικό (psychikó)
- ψυχικός (psychikós)
- ψυχισμός (psychismós)
- ψυχούλα (psychoúla)
- ψυχούδι (psychoúdi)
- ψυχωμένος (psychoménos)
- ψύχωση (psýchosi)
- ψυχωτικός (psychotikós)
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