Wes: all these -THTOS forms are simply genitive singulars of the nouns with
nominatives in -THS. They are all abstracts; the stem is -THT- (it is in
fact the very same element that forms the -TAS abstract nouns in Latin with
stem in -TAT-.
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>(Partial list of -THTOS suffixes)
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>MEGALEIOTHTOS (Acts 19:27, 2Pet 1:16) magificence
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>CRHSTOTHTOS (Rom 2:4) "undeserved" kindness
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>TELEIOTHTOS (Col 3:14) complete, perfect
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>KURIOTHTOS (Eph 1:21, 2Pet 2:10) lordship, authority
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>SEMNOTHTOS (1Tim 3:4) seriousness
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>GUMNOTHTOS (Rev 3:18) nakedness
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>TIMIOTHTOS (Rev 18:19) costliness
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>NEOTHTOS (Mark 10:20, Luke 18:21, Acts 26:4, 1Tim 4:12) youth
Carl W. Conrad
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