μακάριος

See also: Μακάριος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix), of unknown, apparently pre-Greek, origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.ká.ri.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /maˈka.ri.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /maˈka.ri.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maˈka.ri.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈka.ri.os/

Adjective

μακάριος • (makários) m (feminine μακαρία, neuter μακάριον); first/second declension

(mostly of men) blessed, happy
- Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.61
- Euripides, Orestes 86
- Plato, The Republic 354A
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1.10.14–16
- Menander, The Demiurge 2, (compare Monostiches 357)
- Plato, Protagoras 309C
- Plato, The Republic 432D
- Aristophanes, The Knights 186, (compare The Wasps 1512)
- Plato, Euthydemus 303C
- Aristophanes, The Wasps 1292
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.39
1. (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
  - Plato, The Republic 335E, (compare Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.5.3, Aristotle, Politics 7.1.4)
  - Plato, Meno 71A
  - Menander, The Harp-Player 1.6
2. (of the dead)
  - Plato, Laws 947D, (compare Aristophanes, Fragments 445)
3. (of states, qualities, and the like)
  - Euripides, Orestes 1208
  - Euripides, The Trojan Women 327

Inflection

First and second declension of μακάριος; μακαρίᾱ; μακάριον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	μακάριος makários	μακαρίᾱ makaríā	μακάριον makárion	μακαρίω makaríō	μακαρίᾱ makaríā	μακαρίω makaríō	μακάριοι makárioi	μακάριαι makáriai	μακάριᾰ makária
Genitive	μακαρίου makaríou	μακαρίᾱς makaríās	μακαρίου makaríou	μακαρίοιν makaríoin	μακαρίαιν makaríain	μακαρίοιν makaríoin	μακαρίων makaríōn	μακαρίων makaríōn	μακαρίων makaríōn
Dative	μακαρίῳ makaríōi	μακαρίᾳ makaríāi	μακαρίῳ makaríōi	μακαρίοιν makaríoin	μακαρίαιν makaríain	μακαρίοιν makaríoin	μακαρίοις makaríois	μακαρίαις makaríais	μακαρίοις makaríois
Accusative	μακάριον makárion	μακαρίᾱν makaríān	μακάριον makárion	μακαρίω makaríō	μακαρίᾱ makaríā	μακαρίω makaríō	μακαρίους makaríous	μακαρίᾱς makaríās	μακάριᾰ makária
Vocative	μακάριε makárie	μακαρίᾱ makaríā	μακάριον makárion	μακαρίω makaríō	μακαρίᾱ makaríā	μακαρίω makaríō	μακάριοι makárioi	μακάριαι makáriai	μακάριᾰ makária
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	μακαρίως makaríōs			μακαριότερος makarióteros			μακαριότᾰτος makariótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The masculine forms are sometimes used for the feminine.

Descendants

→ Coptic: ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ (makarios)
Greek: μακάρι (makári) (see there for further descendants)

References

μακάριος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μακάριος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μακάριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μακάριος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3107 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
μακάριος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blessed idem, page 83.
- blissful idem, page 84.
- fortunate idem, page 340.
- happy idem, page 384.
- joyful idem, page 464.
- prosperous idem, page 653.
- successful idem, page 834.

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