ἡ ἐπιθυμία | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Desire, longing, or craving for something, especially a strong appetite or impulse. In ethical and philosophical contexts, it often denotes an appetitive desire as distinct from reason or spirit.

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἡ ἐπιθυμία"

Ἡ: {'part_of_speech': 'definite article', 'case': 'nominative', 'number': 'singular', 'gender': 'feminine'}

Ἐπιθυμία: {'part_of_speech': 'noun', 'case': 'nominative', 'number': 'singular', 'gender': 'feminine', 'declension': '1st declension (alpha-stem, -ία ending)'}

Related Forms of ἐπιθυμία

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Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

epithumias genitive, singular / plural, feminine

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