NoMoreLurking@startrek.websitetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the adjective 'daily' in the lord's prayer is actually written in the original Greek as *epiousion*, which occurs nowhere else in known historyEnglish
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1 year agoGreek guy here.
Επιούσιος (e-pi-u-si-os) is a composite word (you can make an astronomical number of composite words in Greek if you want to express a new concept, such as tele-phone) and in this sentence it means that which will nourish us for the day. So daily is quite fitting here.
From Phoenician actually
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet