- οὑσία
- οὑσίαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `being, property, one's own, existence, reality, substance' (Att.; on the meaning Hirzel Phil. 72, 42ff.);Other forms: Ion. -ίη f., Dor. ὠσία.Compounds: Often w. prefix (from ἄπ-ειμι etc.), e.g. ἀπ-, ἐξ-, μετ-, παρ-, συν-ουσία, -ίη (mostly Att.). Compp. ἐξ-ούσιος `bereft of property' (Ph.), ὑπερ-, μετ-ούσιος `above resp. below being' (Them., Arist.-comm. a.o.).Derivatives: οὑσ-ί̄διον n. `small property', -ιότης f. `nature'; -ιώδης `substantial, real' (Epicur.), -ιακός `belonging to property'; συν-, ἐξ-ουσιάζω `to be together' esp. `to have power' (since IVa; οὑσιάζω only PMag. Lond.), from which a.o. συνουσι-αστής m. (Pl., X.), -αστικός (Ar.); οὑσι-όω, -όομαι `to be(come) provided with substance', συν- οὑσία `to be connected to something' with (συν-) -ωσις (late).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [340] *h₁s-n̥t- `being'Etymology: Abstractformation in -ία from ptc. ὤν, οὖσα, ὄν (cf. γερουσία : γέρων); after it Dor. ὠσία, also ἐσσία, to Dor. Aeol. f. ἔσσα, pl. ἔντες (Pl. Kra. 40 1c); further Chantraine Form. 117; s. also ἐστώ.Page in Frisk: 2,449
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.