Ancient Greek

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kenótis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kenótis/

Noun

καινότης • ‎(kainótēs) f ‎(genitive καινότητος); third declension

1. newness, freshness
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 13
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Ep. 18
2. novelty
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.38
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 2
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Ammaeum 2 3
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Nicocles 41
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Historiae Romanae 44.3
3. (biblical, Christianity) the new state of eternal life given by the Holy Spirit
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 6.4
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 7.6

Declension

References

• καινότης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καινότης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καινότης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2538”, 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.
  • extravagance idem, page 297.
  • freshness idem, page 345.
  • newness idem, page 557.
  • novelty idem, page 561.
  • originality idem, page 580.
  • strangeness idem, page 823.
  • uncommonness idem, page 910.
  • unfamiliarity idem, page 917.
  • unwontedness idem, page 937.