μετάνοια

From μετανοέω (metanoéō, “to perceive afterwards, repent”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ia).

μετᾰ́νοιᾰ • (metánoia) f (genitive μετᾰνοίᾱς); first declension

1. afterthought, repentance
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.36
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 198
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.66.7
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Proverbs 14.15
   • 700 BCE – 600 BCE, Aristeas, Collected Works 188
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 2.4.12
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 91
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 20:21
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 6:1

• → Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲁⲛⲟⲓⲁ (metanoia)
• → English: metanoia

• μετάνοια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μετάνοια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μετάνοια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3341 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • change idem, page 123.
  • compunction idem, page 154.
  • contrition idem, page 170.
  • conversion idem, page 173.
  • front idem, page 346.
  • penitence idem, page 603.
  • regret idem, page 687.
  • remorse idem, page 693.
  • repentance idem, page 696.
  • revulsion idem, page 711.
  • sorrow idem, page 795.