ἀδελφή
See also: αδελφή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”). Displaced the reflex of Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.del.pʰɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.delˈpʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ðelˈɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.ðelˈfi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.ðelˈfi/
Noun
ἀδελφή • (adelphḗ) f (genitive ἀδελφῆς); first declension
- sister
- some other female relation, such as wife or cousin
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀδελφή hē adelphḗ |
τὼ ἀδελφᾱ́ tṑ adelphā́ |
αἱ ἀδελφαί hai adelphaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀδελφῆς tês adelphês |
τοῖν ἀδελφαῖν toîn adelphaîn |
τῶν ἀδελφῶν tôn adelphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀδελφῇ têi adelphêi |
τοῖν ἀδελφαῖν toîn adelphaîn |
ταῖς ἀδελφαῖς taîs adelphaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀδελφήν tḕn adelphḗn |
τὼ ἀδελφᾱ́ tṑ adelphā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ἀδελφᾱ́ς tā̀s adelphā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀδελφή adelphḗ |
ἀδελφᾱ́ adelphā́ |
ἀδελφαί adelphaí | ||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
- ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”)
Further reading
- “ἀδελφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀδελφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀδελφή 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
- ἀδελφή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G79 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.
- sister idem, page 779.
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