ἀσφάλεια

See also: ασφάλεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀσφαλής (asphalḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.pʰá.leː.a/ → /asˈɸa.li.a/ → /asˈfa.li.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.pʰá.leː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈpʰa.li.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈɸa.li.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈfa.li.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈfa.li.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ • (aspháleia) f (genitive ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς); first declension

1. security, surety
2. certainty

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ; τῆς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ hē aspháleia	τὼ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ tṑ asphaleíā	αἱ ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειαι hai aspháleiai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς tês asphaleíās	τοῖν ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαιν toîn asphaleíain	τῶν ᾰ̓σφᾰλειῶν tôn asphaleiôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾳ têi asphaleíāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαιν toîn asphaleíain	ταῖς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείαις taîs asphaleíais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰν tḕn aspháleian	τὼ ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ tṑ asphaleíā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱς tā̀s asphaleíās
Vocative	ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειᾰ aspháleia	ᾰ̓σφᾰλείᾱ asphaleíā	ᾰ̓σφᾰ́λειαι aspháleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ασφάλεια (asfáleia)

Further reading

• “ἀσφάλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀσφάλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀσφάλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσφάλεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G803 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assurance idem, page 48.
  • certainty idem, page 122.
  • conduct idem, page 157.
  • immunity idem, page 418.
  • pass idem, page 595.
  • safe-conduct idem, page 730.
  • safety idem, page 730.
  • security idem, page 747.
  • stability idem, page 808.