Strong G3776οὐσία

οὐσί-α,
Ionic dialect -ιη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.92, 6.86.ά, “SIG” 167.26 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC))]; Doric dialect ἐσσία, ὠσία (which see): ἡ: (ὀντ-, participle of εἰμί sum):—that which is one's own, one's substance, property, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus [same places], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 911 (assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 337, “Hel.” 1253 (_plural_, “fragment” 354 (assuming variant)), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 729, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 551b, “SIG”)][same place], etc.; opposed to τὰ σώματα (civil status), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.74; καλῶς.. ἐπεμελήθη τῶν οὐσιῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δημάρχου “BSA” 24.154 (Attica, 4th c.BC))]; εἰ ἐκεκτήμην οὐ. if I had been a man of substance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.11; ὑπὲρ τὴν οὐ. δαπανᾶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.7; πατρῴαν οὐ. κατεσθίειν 4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 1.32, compare 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 45 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; φανερὰ οὐσία real property, immovables, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.118)]; opposed to ἀφανής, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.4)]; frequently of estates in Egypt, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 6.23 (2nd c.BC, _plural_), “BGU” 650.3 (1st c.AD), “OGI” 665.30 (1st c.AD), etc.)]
II in Philos., like Ionic dialect φύσις (with which it is interchanged in various uses, e. g. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 11, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 359a, 359b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 646a25, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.1.1))], stable being, immutable reality, opposed to γένεσις, ὅτιπερ πρὸς γένεσιν οὐσία, τοῦτο πρὸς πίστιν ἀλήθεια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 29c, compare “Sph.” 232c; ὧν κίνησις γένεσιν παραλαβοῦσα ἀέναον οὐ. ἐπόρισεν [prev. author] “Lg.” 966e; γένεσις μὲν τὸ σπέρμα, οὐ. δὲ τὸ τέλος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 641b32, compare 640a18, etc.)]; ὁδὸς εἰς οὐσίαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1003b7)]: hence, being in the abstract, opposed to non-being (τὸ μὴ εἶναι), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 185c.)]
II.2 substance, essence, opposed to πάθη ('modes'), [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Euthphr.” 11a; πάθη οὐσίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1003b7)]; opposed to συμβεβηκότα ('accidents'), [Refs ([prev. author] “APo.” 83a24, “PA” 643a27; ἡ φύσις [τῆς ψυχῆς] καὶ ἡ οὐ., εἶθ᾽ ὅσα συμβέβηκε περὶ αὐτήν [prev. author] “de An.” 402a8.)]
II.3 true nature of that which is a member of a kind, defined as ὃ τυγχάνει ἕκαστον ὄν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 65d)]; as τὸ ὅ ἐστι[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 92d; as τὸ τί ἐστι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 90b30)]; τὸ εἶναί τε καὶ τὴν οὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 509b)]; expressed in a formula or definition, ψυχῆς οὐ. τε καὶ λόγον [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 245e; τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι οὗ ὁ λόγος ὁρισμός, καὶ τοῦτο οὐ. λέγεται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1017b22; μόνης τῆς οὐ. ἐστὶν ὁ ὁρισμός [prev. work] 1031a1.)]
II.4 the possession of such a nature, substantiality, ἔτι ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐ. πρεσβείᾳ.. ὑπερέχοντος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 509b.)]
II.5 in the concrete, the primary real, the substratum underlying all change and process in nature, applied by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)] to the atoms of Democritus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“fragment” 208; to τὰ ἁπλᾶ σώματα [prev. author] “Cael.” 298a29, compare “Metaphorical” 1017b10; πᾶσαι αἱ φυσικαὶ οὐ. ἢ σώματα ἢ μετὰ σωμάτων γίγνονται [prev. author] “Cael.” 298b3, +others; ταὐτὸν σῶμα καὶ οὐσίαν ὁριζόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 246a; but also, νοητὰ ἄττα καὶ ἀσώματα εἴδη.. τὴν ἀληθινὴν οὐ. [prev. work]b.)]
II.6 in Logic, substance as the leading category, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 1b26, “Metaphorical” 1045b29)]; αἱ πρῶται οὐ. (individuals), αἱ δεύτεραι οὐ. (species and genera), [Refs ([prev. author] “Cat.” 2b5, 2a15 (but ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὁ ἵππος.. οὐκ ἔστιν οὐ. ἀλλὰ σύνολόν τι [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1035b29, compare σύνθετος or συνθέτη οὐ. [prev. work] 1043a30, “de An.” 412a16); ἡ μὲν ψυχὴ οὐ. ἡ πρώτη, τὸ δὲ σῶμα ὕλη [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1037a5; ἡ ψυχὴ οὐ. ὡς εἶδος [prev. author] “de An.” 412a19)]; ἡ οὐ. ἐντελέχεια[Refs ([prev. work] 21; [ψυχὴ] οὐ. τοῦ ἐμψύχου [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1035b15)]; of the abstract objects of mathematics, μονὰς οὐ. ἄθετος, στιγμὴ δὲ οὐ. θετός [Refs ([prev. author] “APo.” 87a36.)]
II.7 after [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus and 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus in various uses, as ἡ ἄποιος οὐ., ={ἡ ὕλη}, 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.24)]; κατὰ οὐσίαν, opposed to κατὰ δύναμιν ἢ ἐνέργειαν, Polystr.p.12 W.; πᾶς νοῦς ἀμέριστός ἐστιν οὐ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 171, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.4.5, 2.6.1, 4.7.8, 6.1.2, +others)]
II.8 [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus name for I, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 6.)]
III name of a plaster, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 15.15,45.)]
IV αἱ οὐ. fireresisting substances, Zos.Alch.p.168 [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]; of the four σώματα (copper, tin, lead, iron), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pseudo-Democritus Alchemista cited in [same work] p.167 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
V in Magic, a material thing by which a connexion is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent, e.g. a hair, λαβὼν βελόνην διείρων τὴν οὐ. εἰς αὐτήν [Refs (“PMag.Par.” 1.2949, compare “PMag.Osl.” 1.73; mould from a tomb, “PMag.Par.” 1.435; κυνοκεφάλου οὐ.,.. κυνὸς οὐ., ={κόπρος} (compare 2460), [prev. work]2687, etc.)]