Ancient Greek

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

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

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

Noun

ματαιότης • ‎(mataiótēs) f ‎(genitive ματαιότητος); third declension

1. emptiness, purposelessness, futility

Inflection

References

• ματαιότης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ματαιότης» 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
• “G3153”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ματαιότης ‎(mataiótēs)

Noun

ματαιότης • ‎(mataiótis) f

1. Katharevousa form of ματαιότητα ‎(mataiótita)

   ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τα πάντα ματαιότης‎

   mataiótis mataiotíton, ta pánta mataiótis

   Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. (Ecclesiastes)