εὐθανασία

See also: ευθανασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ θάνατος (thánatos, “death”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.tʰa.na.sí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.tʰa.naˈsi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɸ.θa.naˈsi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ef.θa.naˈsi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ef.θa.naˈsi.a/

Noun

εὐθᾰνᾰσίᾱ • (euthanasíā) f (genitive εὐθᾰνᾰσίᾱς); first declension

easy, happy death
noble death

Declension

First declension of ἡ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē euthanasíā
Genitive	τῆς εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês euthanasíās
Dative	τῇ εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi euthanasíāi
Accusative	τὴν εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn euthanasíān
Vocative	εὐθᾰνᾰσῐ́ᾱ euthanasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

→ Belarusian: эўтана́зія (eŭtanázija)
→ Catalan: eutanàsia
→ English: euthanasia, euthanasy
- → Japanese: ユーサネイジア (yūsaneijia)
→ Finnish: eutanasia
→ French: euthanasie (see there for further descendants)
→ Galician: eutanasia
Greek: ευθανασία (efthanasía)
→ Hungarian: eutanázia
→ Indonesian: eutanasia
→ Italian: eutanasia
→ Polish: eutanazja
→ Portuguese: eutanásia
→ Russian: эвтана́зия (evtanázija)
- → Armenian: էվթանազիա (ēvtʻanazia)
→ Slovak: eutanázia
→ Spanish: eutanasia
→ Ukrainian: евтана́зія (evtanázija), ейтана́зія (ejtanázija)

Further reading

εὐθανασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“εὐθανασία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
“εὐθανασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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