Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀλάθεια ‎(alátheia) (Doric)
• ἀλαθεία ‎(alatheía)
• ἀληθεία ‎(alētheía) (Homeric)
• ἀληθείη ‎(alētheíē) (Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /alíθia/

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

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

Noun

ἀλήθεια • ‎(alḗtheia) f ‎(genitive ἀληθείας); first declension

1. not a lie
2. truth
3. (Septuagint, plural form?) the Thummim

Inflection

Descendants

• English: alethic, alethiology, philalethia
• Greek: αλήθεια ‎(alítheia)

References

• ἀλήθεια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀλήθεια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀλήθεια» 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
• «ἀλήθεια» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G225”, 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.
  • accuracy idem, page 7.
  • authenticity idem, page 53.
  • basis idem, page 64.
  • certainty idem, page 122.
  • fact idem, page 300.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • genuineness idem, page 357.
  • reality idem, page 676.
  • sincerity idem, page 777.
  • substance idem, page 832.
  • truth idem, page 899.
  • truthfulness idem, page 899.
  • veracity idem, page 948.
  • verity idem, page 948.