ἘΛΑΤΤΟΥΣΑ, ἐλαττουσα
ELATTOUSA, elattousa
Sounds Like: eh-LAT-too-sah
Translations: lessening, diminishing, making less, being made less, being diminished
From the root: ἘΛΑΤΤΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, indicating an ongoing action of making something less or diminishing it. It can also be used in the middle/passive voice to mean 'being made less' or 'being diminished'. It describes a process of reduction or decrease.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΑΤΤΟΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΥΜΕΝΟΙ — being diminished, being made less, being inferior, those who are diminished, those who are made less, those who are inferior
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΥΜΕΝΟΥ — of being made less, of being diminished, of being made inferior, of being decreased
- ἘΛΑΤΤΩΘΕΙΣΗ — (to) having been made less, (to) having been diminished, (to) having been lessened, (to) having been made inferior
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