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What is the ancient greek for the english word LOYALTY ?
Can you please provide the answer in english (latin) characters? Thanks
Hello,
the ancient Greek word for LOYALTY is PISTIS (nominative case of a feminine noun belonging to the 3rd.declension).
Note that the I in 'pistis' is pronounced like the Y in 'play'.
Of course the word “pistis” is the transliteration into Latin alphabet we use still today.
In fact in ancient Greek letters we must write:
πίστις (pi-iota with the acute accent-sigma-tau-iota-sigma final).
See at: http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
Best regards,
Maria
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