ἐπιθυμία | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Desire, longing, or craving for something, often with the sense of appetite or passionate inclination. In ethical contexts, it can denote a “desire” that tends toward bodily or irrational impulse.

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἐπιθυμία"

Case: nominative

Number: singular

Gender: feminine

Declension: first declension (alpha-stem; eta in nominative singular: -ία)

Related Forms of ἐπιθυμία

3 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

ἡ ἐπιθυμία noun (with definite article) epithumias genitive, singular / plural, feminine ἐπιθυμίαις dative, plural, feminine

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