διάγνωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “distinguish, discern”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis), from δια- (dia-) +‎ γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.á.ɡnɔː.sis/ → /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/ → /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.á.ɡnɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈa.ɡno.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/

Noun

δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς • (diágnōsis) f (genitive δῐᾰγνώσῐος or δῐᾰγνώσεως); third declension

1. distinguishing
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.50
2. means of distinguishing or discerning
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 926
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.128
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 2.9
   1. (medicine) diagnosis
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Injuries of the Head 10
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.766
   2. power of discernment
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 696
3. resolving, deciding
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 6.18
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.7
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 1.34
   • Metrodorus, Fragments 27
   1. (law, Christianity) examination, opinion, decision
      • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 25:21
      • «τοῦ δὲ Παύλου ἐπῐκᾰλεσᾰμένου τηρηθῆναι αὐτὸν εις τήν τοῦ Σεβᾰστοῦ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐν ἐκέλευσᾰ τηρεῖσθαι αυτόν, ἑώς οὗ πέμψω αυτὸν πρὸς Καίσᾰρᾰ.» Acts of the Apostles 25:21 Scrivener’s 1894 Textus Receptus
      • ‘toû dè Paúlou epĭkălesăménou tērēt͡hē̂nai autòn eis tḕn toû Sebăstoû dĭắgnōsĭn ekéleusă tēreîst͡hai autòn, héōs hoû pémp͡sō autòn pròs Kaísără.’

Declension

Third declension of ἡ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς; τῆς δῐᾰγνώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς hē diágnōsis	τὼ δῐᾰγνώσει tṑ diagnṓsei	αἱ δῐᾰγνώσεις hai diagnṓseis
Genitive	τῆς δῐᾰγνώσεως tês diagnṓseōs	τοῖν δῐᾰγνωσέοιν toîn diagnōséoin	τῶν δῐᾰγνώσεων tôn diagnṓseōn
Dative	τῇ δῐᾰγνώσει têi diagnṓsei	τοῖν δῐᾰγνωσέοιν toîn diagnōséoin	ταῖς δῐᾰγνώσεσῐ / δῐᾰγνώσεσῐν taîs diagnṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῐᾰ́γνωσῐν tḕn diágnōsin	τὼ δῐᾰγνώσει tṑ diagnṓsei	τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰγνώσεις tā̀s diagnṓseis
Vocative	δῐᾰ́γνωσῐ diágnōsi	δῐᾰγνώσει diagnṓsei	δῐᾰγνώσεις diagnṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: διάγνωση (diágnosi)
• Hungarian: diagnózis
• Latin: diagnōsis
  • English: diagnosis
  • Norman: dgiag'nose
• Russian: диагноз (diagnoz)

References

• “διάγνωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διάγνωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διάγνωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διάγνωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1233 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adjudication idem, page 12.
  • award idem, page 56.
  • decision idem, page 201.
  • determination idem, page 219.
  • discernment idem, page 229.
  • discrimination idem, page 232.
  • distinction idem, page 241.
  • judgment idem, page 465.
  • sentence idem, page 753.