Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /makários/

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

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

Adjective

μακάριος • ‎(makários) m ‎(feminine μακαρία, neuter μακάριον); first/second declension

1. (mostly of men) blessed, happy
   • Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.61
   • Euripides, Orestes 86
   • Plato, The Republic 354.A
   • Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1.10.14–16
   • Menander, The Demiurge 2, (compare Monostiches 357)
   • Plato, Protagoras 309.C
   • Plato, The Republic 432.D
   • Aristophanes, The Knights 186, (compare The Wasps 1512)
   • Plato, Euthydemus 303.C
   • Aristophanes, The Wasps 1292
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.39
   1. (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
      • Plato, The Republic 335.E, (compare Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.5.3, Aristotle, Politics 7.1.4)
      • Plato, Meno 71.A
      • Menander, The Harp-Player 1.6
   2. (of the dead)
      • Plato, Laws 947.D, (compare Aristophanes, Fragments 445)
   3. (of states, qualities, and the like)
      • Euripides, Orestes 1208
      • Euripides, The Trojan Women 327

Inflection

References

• μακάριος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μακάριος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μακάριος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μακάριος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3107”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «μακάριος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blessed idem, page 83.
  • blissful idem, page 84.
  • fortunate idem, page 340.
  • happy idem, page 384.
  • joyful idem, page 464.
  • prosperous idem, page 653.
  • successful idem, page 834.