Ancient Greek

Noun

ἐπιθῡμίᾱ • ‎(epithūmíā) f ‎(genitive ἐπιθῡμίᾱς); first declension

1. yearning, longing, desire, craving
2. Often with a negative connotation: lust

Inflection

Descendants

• Russian: епитимия f ‎(jepitímija), епитимья f ‎(jepitím'ja)

References

• ἐπιθυμία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐπιθυμία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “G1939”, 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.
  • appetite idem, page 35.
  • aspiration idem, page 45.
  • bent idem, page 74.
  • caprice idem, page 112.
  • concupiscence idem, page 156.
  • craving idem, page 182.
  • desire idem, page 215.
  • hunger idem, page 410.
  • inclination idem, page 428.
  • itch idem, page 461.
  • longing idem, page 498.
  • lust idem, page 505.
  • passion idem, page 597.
  • predilection idem, page 633.
  • proneness idem, page 653.
  • vagary idem, page 942.
  • want idem, page 961.
  • whim idem, page 976.
  • wish idem, page 983.
• BDAG