δῆμος
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Ancient Greek [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mos. Cognates include Old Irish dām and Old Welsh dauu.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (5th BC Attic): IPA: /dɛ́͜ɛmos/
- (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /déːmos/
- (4th AD Koine): IPA: /ðímos/
- (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /ðímos/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /ðímos/
Noun [edit]
δῆμος (genitive δήμου) m, second declension; (dēmos)
- country, land
- A deme, a subdivision of ancient Attica.
- People, mainly the common people.
- Common people, i.e. the democratic faction.
- ἦν γὰρ Πειθίας ἐθελοπρόξενός τε τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ τοῦ δήμου προειστήκει (Thucydides, Hist.3.70)
- for Peithias was a volunteer proxenus of the Athenians and the leader of the democratic faction
- ἦν γὰρ Πειθίας ἐθελοπρόξενός τε τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ τοῦ δήμου προειστήκει (Thucydides, Hist.3.70)
- (rare) commoner
- Assembly of the people as a political body.
- democracy
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References [edit]
- LSJ
- Bauer lexicon
- Strong’s concordance number: G1218