Etymograph

English

anhypostasia

Anhypostasia comes from Ancient Greek ἀνῠποστασία, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand (up)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-‘to stand (up)’root as named
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνῠποστασίαanŭpostasía
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1872anhypostasia

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-‘to stand (up)’root as named
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνῠποστασίαanŭpostasía
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1872anhypostasia

Earliest quotation: 1872, John M'Clintock [i.e., John of Damascus: “The doctrine of the person of Christ is argued…”

Equivalent to an- + hypostasis + -ia

Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- ‘on, onto’

Proto-Germanic *ana- ‘on’

Proto-West Germanic *ana- ‘Forming verbs and adjectives from participles…’

English an-

Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις ‘sediment, foundation’

Ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis

English hypostasis

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand (up)’

state, system, rest, stay, post, stand, distance, constitution, stood, contest, stadium, consistent, establishment, establish, instance, stable, stem, destination, assistant, stability, destiny, testimony, assistance, assist, instant, resist, substance, distant, static, insist, persistent, consist, stud, prostitution, stationary, stool, prostitute, substitution, persist, stale, 158 more

Today it means

noun The quality of Jesus Christ's humanity, such that it has its existence entirely from the hypostatic union, rather than from any independent human personhood (or hypostasis). The concept does not deny Jesus's personhood, but denies that Jesus's humanity has any personhood apart from the one hypostasis in which his humanity and divinity are united.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- / anhypostasia

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