εὐψυχία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

εὔψῡχ(ος) (eúpsūkh(os)) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯p.syː.kʰí.aː/ → /eɸp.syˈçi.a/ → /efp.siˈçi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯p.syː.kʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ewp.syˈkʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸp.syˈçi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /efp.syˈçi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /efp.siˈçi.a/

Noun

εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ • (eupsūkhíā) f (genitive εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. courage, high spirit, eupsychia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ hē eupsūkhíā	τὼ εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ tṑ eupsūkhíā	αἱ εὐψῡχῐ́αι hai eupsūkhíai
Genitive	τῆς εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱς tês eupsūkhíās	τοῖν εὐψῡχῐ́αιν toîn eupsūkhíain	τῶν εὐψῡχῐῶν tôn eupsūkhiôn
Dative	τῇ εὐψῡχῐ́ᾳ têi eupsūkhíāi	τοῖν εὐψῡχῐ́αιν toîn eupsūkhíain	ταῖς εὐψῡχῐ́αις taîs eupsūkhíais
Accusative	τὴν εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱν tḕn eupsūkhíān	τὼ εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ tṑ eupsūkhíā	τᾱ̀ς εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eupsūkhíās
Vocative	εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ eupsūkhíā	εὐψῡχῐ́ᾱ eupsūkhíā	εὐψῡχῐ́αι eupsūkhíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ευψυχία (efpsychía) (learned)

Further reading

• “εὐψυχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐψυχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐψυχία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boldness idem, page 88.
  • bravery idem, page 94.
  • courage idem, page 178.
  • gallantry idem, page 352.