Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ypomoní/

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

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

Noun

ὑπομονή • ‎(hupomonḗ) f ‎(genitive ὑπομονῆς); first declension

1. an act of remaining behind
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1410.A.4
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.44
2. an act of holding out, patient endurance
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 240
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Definitions 412.C
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 97.B.24
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1384.A.21
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.46
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.51.1
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pelopidas 1
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.15.8
3. the enduring to do
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 6.1

Inflection

References

• ὑπομονή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑπομονή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὑπομονή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5281”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979