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πίστις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίστις πίστεως

Structure: πιστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pei/qomai

Sense

trust in others, faith
belief in a higher power, faith
the state of being persuaded of something: belief, confidence, assurance
trust in a commercial sense: credit
faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, fidelity
that which gives assurance: treaty, oath, guarantee
means of persuasion: argument, proof
that which is entrusted

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πίστις	πίστει	πίστεις
Genitive	πίστεως	πίστοιν	πίστεων
Dative	πίστει	πίστοιν	πίστεσιν*
Accusative	πίστιν	πίστει	πίστεις
Vocative	πίστι	πίστει	πίστεις

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

τῶν πίστεων δι’ ἀναγκαίων συνάγεται λημμάτων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 2 1:1)
ἄρξομαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν καλουμένων ἐντέχνων πίστεων καὶ χωρὶσ ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου μέρουσ διαλέξομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 191)
καὶ ἄλλοσ ὅ τι δή ποτε, ὡσ τάραχον γίνεσθαι οὐ τὸν τυχόντα τῶν ἐπὶ τούτοισ πίστεων παρὰ πάντων λεγομένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 1:2)
οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἄλλο πραγματεύονται πλὴν ὅπωσ τὸν κριτὴν ποιόν τινα ποιήσωσιν, περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐντέχνων πίστεων οὐδὲν δεικνύουσιν, τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν ὅθεν ἄν τισ γένοιτο ἐνθυμηματικόσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 1 9:2)
ἐπεὶ δὲ φανερόν ἐστιν ὅτι ἡ μὲν ἔντεχνοσ μέθοδοσ περὶ τὰσ πίστεισ ἐστίν, ἡ δὲ πίστισ ἀπόδειξίσ τισ τότε γὰρ πιστεύομεν μάλιστα ὅταν ἀποδεδεῖχθαι ὑπολάβωμεν, ἔστι δ’ ἀπόδειξισ ῥητορικὴ ἐνθύμημα, καὶ ἔστι τοῦτο ὡσ εἰπεῖν ἁπλῶσ κυριώτατον τῶν πίστεων, τὸ δ’ ἐνθύμημα συλλογισμόσ τισ, περὶ δὲ συλλογισμοῦ ὁμοίωσ ἅπαντοσ τῆσ διαλεκτικῆσ ἐστιν ἰδεῖν, ἢ αὐτῆσ ὅλησ ἢ μέρουσ τινόσ, δῆλον ὅτι ὁ μάλιστα τοῦτο δυνάμενοσ θεωρεῖν, ἐκ τίνων καὶ πῶσ γίνεται συλλογισμόσ, οὗτοσ καὶ ἐνθυμηματικὸσ ἂν εἰή μάλιστα, προσλαβὼν περὶ ποῖά τέ ἐστι τὸ ἐνθύμημα καὶ τίνασ ἔχει διαφορὰσ πρὸσ τοὺσ λογικοὺσ συλλογισμούσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 1 11:1)

Synonyms

faithfulness
- πιστότης (good faith, honesty)
means of persuasion
- πειθώ (means of persuasion, inducement, argument)
- παράδειγμα (argument, proof from example)

καύχησις (reason to boast)
ἀπόδειξις (a shewing forth)
εὐχαριστίᾱ (thanks)
παραίτησις (earnest prayer)
παράκλησις (a calling to one's aid)
μακροθῡμίᾱ (long-suffering)
δέησις (an entreating)
εὐποιί̈α (beneficence)
ἀμεταμέλητος (not to be repented of)
πρόθεσις (a placing in public)
ἁγιασμός (consecration)
ἀναντίλεκτος (incontestable)
ὑπόληψις (a taking up)
οἰκτιρμων (merciful)
οἰκτιρμός (pity)
τελείωσις (accomplishment)
πίστωμα (an assurance)
σύνεσις (a conflux)
πρόφασις (that which is alleged as the cause)
ἀφθαρσία (incorruption)
θαυμαστέος (to be admired)
ἀκροβυστίᾱ (foreskin)
ἀντίχριστος (Antichrist)
σκῆψις (a pretext)
περισσεία (surplus)
ὑπομενετέος (one must sustain)
διήγησις (narration)
δείκνῡμι (I show)
ἴασις (cure)
κρίσις (decision)

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