Ancient Greek

Noun

δύναμις • ‎(dúnamis) f ‎(genitive δυνάμεως); third declension

1. power, might, strength
2. ability, skill
3. power, authority, influence
4. force of war
5. manifestation of divine power: miracle
6. faculty, capacity
7. worth, value
8. The force of a word: meaning
9. (mathematics) square root
10. (mathematics) power

Inflection

Derived terms

• δυνάστης ‎(dunástēs, “ruler, petty ruler”)

Descendants

• Greek: δύναμη f ‎(dýnami, “power”)

  Katharevousa: δύναμις f ‎(dýnamis, “power”)

References

• δύναμις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δύναμις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δύναμις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δύναμις» 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
• «δύναμις» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δύναμις» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δύναμις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1411”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ability idem, page 2.
  • amount idem, page 28.
  • armament idem, page 40.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • capability idem, page 111.
  • capacity idem, page 111.
  • competence idem, page 151.
  • effect idem, page 262.
  • efficacy idem, page 263.
  • endowment idem, page 273.
  • faculty idem, page 301.
  • force idem, page 335.
  • function idem, page 349.
  • gift idem, page 359.
  • greatness idem, page 372.
  • import idem, page 422.
  • influence idem, page 439.
  • interest idem, page 450.
  • meaning idem, page 519.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • organ idem, page 579.
  • part idem, page 593.
  • potency idem, page 629.
  • power idem, page 630.
  • purport idem, page 659.
  • qualification idem, page 663.
  • reach idem, page 675.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • sense idem, page 752.
  • significance idem, page 775.
  • square idem, page 807.
  • strength idem, page 824.
  • sum idem, page 837.
  • sway idem, page 847.
  • talent idem, page 854.
  • tenor idem, page 862.

Greek

Noun

δύναμις • ‎(dýnamis) f

1. Katharevousa form of δύναμη ‎(dýnami)