θεωρία

• θεᾱρῐ́ᾱ (theāríā) — Doric
• θεωρῐ́η (theōríē) — Ionic
• θῐᾰωρῐ́ᾱ (thiaōríā) — Boeotian

From θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

θεωρῐ́ᾱ • (theōríā) f (genitive θεωρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. sending of state-ambassadors (θεωροί)
2. embassy, mission
3. sight, spectacle, viewing
4. consideration, theory, speculation

• Greek: θεωρία (theoría)
• → Latin: theōria (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: теория (teorija)

• “θεωρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεωρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεωρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2335 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • amusement idem, page 28.
  • contemplation idem, page 166.
  • deputation idem, page 213.
  • embassy idem, page 267.
  • envoy idem, page 279.
  • fancy idem, page 306.
  • festival idem, page 316.
  • imagination idem, page 416.
  • meditation idem, page 522.
  • mission idem, page 535.
  • observation idem, page 567.
  • pageant idem, page 588.
  • show idem, page 770.
  • sight idem, page 774.
  • sight-seeing idem, page 774.
  • spectacle idem, page 800.
  • speculation idem, page 800.
  • view idem, page 951.
  • vision idem, page 954.

From Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría)

• IPA^(key): /θeoˈria/

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• Hyphenation: θε‧ω‧ρί‧α
• Homophone: θεωρεία (theoreía)

θεωρία • (theoría) f (plural θεωρίες)

1. theory
2. contemplation

• θεωρείο f (theoreío, “gallery”)
• θεώρημα n (theórima, “theorem”)
• θεωρητικός m (theoritikós, “theoretical”)
• θεωρώ (theoró, “to consider, to validate”)
• θεωρία των συνόλων f (theoría ton synólon, “set theory”)
• θωριά f (thoriá, “appearance”)