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οὐσίαι (ousiai)

οὐσίαι is an Ancient Greek form of οὐσία, meaning “substance, being; property”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De primo frigido 2: … της; καὶ κωφότης καὶ σιωπὴ καὶ θάνατος; ἐκστάσεις γάρ εἰσιν εἰδῶν καὶ ἀναιρέσεις οὐσιῶν, οὐ φύσεις τινὲς οὐδʼ οὐσίαι καθʼ ἑαυτάς ἡ δὲ ψυχρότης οὐκ ἐλάττονα τῆς θερμότητος ἐγγιγνομένη τοῖς σώμασι πάθη καὶ μεταβολὰς ἐνεργάζεσθαι …

Hyperides, Against Athenogenes 34: λαβὲ δή μοι καὶ τὴν τοῦ κηδεστοῦ αὐτοῦ μαρτυρίανμεν ουσιαι λατπακαταλειφθέντααδἑξῆς πάλιν ωαπτὴν Ἀντιγόνανεμαρτυρ

All forms of οὐσία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.