παράδοσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

παρα- (para-) +‎ δόσις (dósis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.rá.do.sis/ → /paˈra.ðo.sis/ → /paˈra.ðo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.rá.do.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈra.do.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ðo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ðo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ðo.sis/

Noun

πᾰράδοσῐς • (parádosis) f (genitive πᾰρᾰδόσεως); third declension

1. transmission, transfer
2. granting, bestowal
3. giving up, surrender
4. tradition

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πᾰρᾰ́δοσῐς; τῆς πᾰρᾰδόσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰρᾰ́δοσῐς hē parádosis	τὼ πᾰρᾰδόσει tṑ paradósei	αἱ πᾰρᾰδόσεις hai paradóseis
Genitive	τῆς πᾰρᾰδόσεως tês paradóseōs	τοῖν πᾰρᾰδοσέοιν toîn paradoséoin	τῶν πᾰρᾰδόσεων tôn paradóseōn
Dative	τῇ πᾰρᾰδόσει têi paradósei	τοῖν πᾰρᾰδοσέοιν toîn paradoséoin	ταῖς πᾰρᾰδόσεσῐ / πᾰρᾰδόσεσῐν taîs paradósesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πᾰρᾰ́δοσῐν tḕn parádosin	τὼ πᾰρᾰδόσει tṑ paradósei	τᾱ̀ς πᾰρᾰδόσεις tā̀s paradóseis
Vocative	πᾰρᾰ́δοσῐ parádosi	πᾰρᾰδόσει paradósei	πᾰρᾰδόσεις paradóseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παραδόσιμος (paradósimos)

Related terms

• παραδίδωμι (paradídōmi)

Descendants

• Greek: παράδοση (parádosi)

Further reading

• παράδοσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “παράδοσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3862 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.
  • capitulation idem, page 112.
  • cession idem, page 122.
  • conveyance idem, page 173.
  • delivery idem, page 208.
  • issue idem, page 461.
  • surrender idem, page 844.
  • tradition idem, page 885.
  • transference idem, page 888.
  • transmission idem, page 889.