Glossary of Greek terms in the Enneads

Glossary of Greek (Ἑλληνική) terms in the Enneads (Ἐννεάδες)

Glossary

Ἑλληνική	Greek	English
ἀγαθοειδές	agathoeides	Good-like
ἀγαθόν, τὸ	agathon, to	the Good
ἀεί	aei	always
αἴδιον	aidion	everlasting
αἰσθάνεσθαι	aisthanesthai	perceiving
αἴσθημα	aisthēma	sense-datum
αἴσθησις	aisthēsis	sense-perception
αἰσθητά	aisthēta	sensibles
αἰσθητικόν	aisthētikon	faculty of sense-perception
αἰτία, αἴτιον	aitia, aition	cause, explanation
αἰώνιον	aionion	eternal
ἀκούσιον	akousion	involuntary
ἀλήθεια	alētheia	truth
ἀλλοίωσις	alloiosis	alteration
ἁμαρτία	hamartia	error, moral error
ἀμεριστόν	ameriston	indivisible
ἀνάγκη	anagkē	necessity
ἀναγωγή	anagogē	ascent
ἀνάμνησις	anamnēsis	recollection
ἄνθρωπος	anthropos	human being
ἀντικείμενα	antikeimena	contraries
ἀντίληψις	antilēpsis	apprehension
ἀπαθής	apathēs	unaffected
ἀπροαίρετον	aproaireton	involuntary
ἀρετή	aretē	excellence
ἀριθμός	arithmos	number, Number
ἁρμονία	harmonia	harmony
ἀρχέτυπος	archetupos	archetype
ἀρχή	archē	principle, starting point
ἀσθένεια	astheneia	susceptibility, weakness
ἄστρον	astron	star
ἄυλον	aulon	immaterial
αὐξητικόν	auxētikon	faculty of increase (in size
αὐτεξούσιον	autexousion	autonomous
αὐτόματον	automaton	spontaneous
ἄφθαρτον	aphtharton	indestructible
βούλησις	boulēsis	will
γένεσις	genesis	generation, becoming
γεννητικόν	gennētikon	faculty of reproduction
γένος, γένη	genos, genē	genus, genera
γιγνώσκειν	gignoskein	know, cognize
γνῶσις	gnosis	knowledge, cognition
δαίμων	daimon	daemon
δημιουργεῖν	dēmiourgein	create
δημιουργός	dēmiourgos	Demiurge
διάθεσις	diathesis	disposition, condition
διανοητικόν	dianoētikon	faculty of discursive thinking
διάνοια	dianoia	discursive thinking
διάστημα	diastēma	interval
δόξα	doxa	belief, opinion
δυάς	duas	Dyad
δύναμις	dunamis	power, capacity, potency, potentiality, faculty, virtuality
εἶδος	eidos	form, Form, species, Species, kind
εἴδωλον	eidolon	reflection
εἰκών	eikon	image
εἱμαρμένη	heimarmenē	fate
ἐκεῖ	ekei	intelligible world. Literally, ‘there’
ἑκούσιον	hekousion	voluntary
ἔκστασις	ekstasis	self-transcendence, displacement
ἕκων	hekon	willingly
ἔλλειψις	elleipsis	deficiency, lack
ἔμφασις	emphasis	reflection
ἕν, τὸ	hen, to	the One, unity
ἐνάντια	enantia	contraries, opposites
ἐναργῆς	enargēs	self-evident
ἐνέργεια	energeia	activity, actuality
ἐνέργημα	energēma	act, activation
ἔννοια	ennoia	conception
ἕξις	hexis	habit, condition, disposition, settled state
ἐπέκεινα	epekeina	transcendent
ἐπιβολή	epibolē	act of apprehension, direct apprehension
ἐπιθυμητικόν	epithumētikon	faculty of appetite
ἐπιθυμία	epithumia	appetite
ἐπίνοια	epinoia	conceptualization, conceptual distinction
ἐπιστήμη	epistēmē	science, scientific understanding
ἐπιστροφή	epistrophē	reversion
ἔργον	ergon	function, deed, task
ἑτερότης	heterotēs	Difference, difference
ἐφ’ ἡμῖν	eph’ hēmin	up to us
ἔφεσις	ephesis	desire
ζωή	zoē	life, Life
ζῷον	zoion	living being, Living Being, animal
ἤ	ē	in fact. Literally ‘or’
ἡγεμών	ĥēgemon	controlling principle
ἦθος	ēthos	character
ἡσυχία	hēsuchia	stillness
θελεῖν	thelein	wanting
θέλησις	thelēsis	wishing
θέμις	themis	licit
θεῖος	theios	divine
θεός	theos	god
θεωρία	theoria	contemplation
θρεπτικόν	threptikon	faculty of nourishment
θυμοειδές	thumoeides	faculty of spiritedness
θύμος	thumos	spiritedness
ἰδέα	idea	Idea, idea
ἰδιότης, ἴδιον	idiotēs, idion	property, distinguishing property, essential property
ἰνδάλμα	indalma	reflection
καθέκαστον	kathekaston	individual, particular
κακία	kakia	vice
κακόν	kaken	evil
κάλλον, καλόν	kallon, kalon	Beauty, beauty
κατηγορία	katēgoria	category, predicate
κένον	kenon	void, empty
κίνησις	kinēsis	motion, Motion
κοινόν	koinon	common, composite
κόσμος	kosmos	cosmos
κρα σις	krasis	blending
κρίσις	krisis	judgement, discernment
κύριος	kurios	principal, authoritative, in charge, dominant, proper
λαμβάνειν	lambanein	grasp
λογικόν	logikon	rational
λογισμός, τὸ λογιστικόν	logismos, to logistikon	faculty of calculative reasoning
λόγος	logos	expressed principle, reason, argument, account
μέγεθος	megethos	magnitude
μένειν	menein	persist, be stable
μέριστον	meriston	divisible, divided
μεταβολή	metabolē	change, transformation
μετέχειν	metechein	partake of
μὴ ὄν	mē on	non-being
μίγμα	migma	mixture
μίμημα	mimēma	imitation
μίξις	mixis	mixture
μνήμη	mnēmē	memory
Μοῖραι	Moirai	Fates
μόνας	monas	unit
νοεῖν	noein	thinking
νόημα	noēma	thought
νόησις	noēsis	intellection, thinking
νοητόν	noēton	intelligible
νοῦς	nous	Intellect, intellect
ὄγκος	ogkos	mass
οἰκεῖον	oikeion	proper
οἰκείωσις	oikeiosis	appropriation, affinity
οἷον	hoion	sort of, in a way
ὅμοιον	homoion	same
ὁμοιότης	homoiotēs	Sameness, sameness
ὁμοίωμα	homoioma	likeness
ὁμοίωσις	homoiosis	assimilation
ὁμώνυμος	homonumos	equivocal
ὄν, ὄντα	on, onta	being, beings, Being, Beings
ὄρεξις	orexis	desire
ὅρμη	hormē	impulse
ὅρος	horos	boundary, definition
οὐρανός	ouranos	heaven
οὐσία	ousia	substance, substantiality, Substance, Substantiality
οὐσιώδεις ἀριθμοί	ousiodeis arithmoi	Substantial Numbers
παθεῖν	pathein	experience affections, experiencing, undergoing
παθητικόν	pathētikon	passible, passive, subject to affection
πάθος	pathos	state, experience, affection, feeling, emotion
παρακολούθημα	parakolouthēma	accompaniment, secondary attribute
παρακολουθία	parakolouthia	conscious awareness
πάσχειν	paschein	experience affections, experiencing, undergoing
πείσις	peisis	affection
περιφορά	periphora	circuit
πίστις	pistis	confidence, trust, conviction
πλῆθος	plēthos	multiplicity
πνεῦμα	pneuma	breath
πόθος	pothos	longing
ποιεῖν	poiein	produce, cause, make
ποίημα	poiēma	product
ποιητής	poiētēs	creator
ποικίλος	poikilos	variegated
πονηρία	ponēria	wickedness
προαίρεσις	proairesis	choice
πρόνοια	pronoia	providence
πρόοδος	proodos	procession
προόρασις	proorasis	foresight
σημασία	sēmasia	signification
σπερματικοί λόγοι	spermatikoi logoi	spermatic principles
σπουδαῖος	spoudaios	virtuous
στάσις	stasis	stability, Stability, positioning, standstill
στέρησις	sterēsis	privation
στοιχεῖον	stoicheion	element
συμβεβηκός	sumbebēkos	accident
συμπάθεια	sumpatheia	sympathy
σύμφυτον	sumphuton	intrinsic
συμφωνία	sumphonia	concord, harmony
συναίσθησις	sunaisthēsis	self-awareness
συναμφότερον	sunamphoteron	complex
σύνεσις	sunesis	comprehension, comprehensive grasp, understanding
σύνθετον	suntheton	composite
σύνταξις	suntaxis	structured ordering
συνώνυμος	sunonumos	univocal
σύστασις	sustasis	combination
σχέσις	schesis	relation, spatial relation, the relative, status, position
σῶμα	soma	body
σωματικόν	somatikon	bodily
σωφροσύνη	sophrosunē	self-control
τάξις	taxis	order, ordered parts, system, arrangement, rank
ταὐτόν	tauton	identical
ταυτότης	tautotēs	identity, Identity
τέλος	telos	goal
τέχνη	technē	craft
τι ἔστι, τὶ ἦν εἶναι	ti esti, ti ēn einai	essence
τὸ ἄπειρον	to apeiron	the unlimited, unlimited, absence of limit, infinite regress, unlimitedness
τὸ εἶναι	to einai	existence, Existence
τὸ πᾶν	to pan	universe
τόλμα	tolma	daring
τόπος	topos	place, region
τύπος	tupos	impression
τυχή	tuchē	chance, luck, fortune
ὕλη	hulē	matter
ὑπάρχειν	huparchein	exist
ὑποκείμενον	hupokeimenon	substrate, underlying nature
ὑπόστασις	hupostasis	real (i.e., extra-mental) existence
ὑφίστημι	huphistēmi	come to exist
φαντασία	phantasia	imagination
φάντασμα	phantasma	semblance
φανταστικόν	phantastikon	faculty of imaginative representation
φθαρτόν	phtharton	destructible
φθορά	phthora	destruction, perishing, passing away
φορά	phora	revolution
φρόνησις	phronēsis	wisdom, practical wisdom
φύσις	phusis	nature
φυτικόν	phutikon	faculty of growth
ψυχή	psuchē	soul, Soul

References

• Gerson, Lloyd P. (trans.) (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0.