οὐσία
See also: ουσία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ὤν, οὖσᾰ, ὄν (ṓn, oûsa, ón, “being”), the present participle of εἰμῐ́ (eimí) (“to be”), + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈsi.a/
Noun
οὐσίᾱ • (ousíā) f (genitive οὐσίᾱς); first declension
- that which is one's own, one's substance, property
- Anaxipp. 1.32
- (philosophy) Synonym of φύσις (phúsis) stable being, immutable reality
- substance, essence
- true nature of that which is a member of a kind
- the possession of such a nature, substantiality
- (in the concrete) the primary real, the substratum underlying all change and process in nature
- (logic) substance as the leading category
- (various uses after Plato and Aristotle)
- Polystr. 12
- Pythagorean name for I
- Theol., Ar. 6
- name of a plaster
- Aet. 15.15.45
- a fire-resisting substance
- (in magic) a material thing by which a connection is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ οὐσῐ́ᾱ hē ousíā |
τὼ οὐσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ousíā |
αἱ οὐσῐ́αι hai ousíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς οὐσῐ́ᾱς tês ousíās |
τοῖν οὐσῐ́αιν toîn ousíain |
τῶν οὐσῐῶν tôn ousiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ οὐσῐ́ᾳ têi ousíāi |
τοῖν οὐσῐ́αιν toîn ousíain |
ταῖς οὐσῐ́αις taîs ousíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν οὐσῐ́ᾱν tḕn ousíān |
τὼ οὐσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ousíā |
τᾱ̀ς οὐσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ousíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐσῐ́ᾱ ousíā |
οὐσῐ́ᾱ ousíā |
οὐσῐ́αι ousíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “οὐσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3776 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- οὐσία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- affair idem, page 16.
- being idem, page 72.
- competence idem, page 151.
- essence idem, page 283.
- existence idem, page 292.
- fortune idem, page 340.
- inheritance idem, page 440.
- possession idem, page 628.
- property idem, page 653.
- reality idem, page 676.
- substance idem, page 832.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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