English
enhypostasia
Enhypostasia comes from Ecclesiastical Latin enhypostasia.
- Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500enhypostasia
- Englishearliest quotation 1867same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500enhypostasia
- Englishearliest quotation 1867same form
Earliest quotation: 1867, Philip Schaff, Theology. Development of the Ecumenical Orthodoxy.: “The anhypostasia, impersonality, or, to speak more accurately, the…”
A compound of ἐν ‘in’ + ὑπόστασις ‘existence’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Ancient Greek ἐν ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand up’
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti ‘to be standing up, to be getting up’
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi ‘to stand’
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ ‘to stand’
Ancient Greek ὑφίστημι ‘to stand under’
Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις ‘existence’
The story
The word is analysable as en- + hypostasis + -ia.
Every English word from Ecclesiastical Latin enhypostasia
Today it means
noun The state of the human nature of Jesus Christ being entirely dependent on, and not existing independently of, the divine nature of God as a whole (which is the hypostasis of the Holy Trinity comprising God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit), or individual persons of the Trinity such as the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ecclesiastical Latin enhypostasia / enhypostasia