Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θεᾱρία ‎(theāría) (Doric)
• θεωρίη ‎(theōríē) (Ionic)
• θιαωρία ‎(thiaōría) (Boeotian)

Noun

θεωρία • ‎(theōría) f ‎(genitive θεωρίας); first declension

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

Inflection

Descendants

• English: theory
• French: théorie
• Greek: θεωρία ‎(theoría)
• Latin: theōria
• Russian: теория ‎(teorija)
• Spanish: teoría

References

• 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’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.
  • 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.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

θεωρία • ‎(theoría) f

1. theory
2. contemplation

Declension

Related terms

• 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”)