δημαγωγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɛː.ma.ɡɔː.ɡí.aː/ → /ði.ma.ɣoˈʝi.a/ → /ði.ma.ɣoˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɛː.ma.ɡɔː.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /de̝.ma.ɡoˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.ma.ɣoˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.ma.ɣoˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.ma.ɣoˈʝi.a/

Noun

δημᾰγωγίᾱ • (dēmăgōgíā) f (genitive δημᾰγωγίᾱς); first declension

1. leadership of the people

Declension

First declension of ἡ δημᾰγωγίᾱ; τῆς δημᾰγωγίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δημᾰγωγίᾱ hē dēmăgōgíā	τὼ δημᾰγωγίᾱ tṑ dēmăgōgíā	αἱ δημᾰγωγίαι hai dēmăgōgíai
Genitive	τῆς δημᾰγωγίᾱς tês dēmăgōgíās	τοῖν δημᾰγωγίαιν toîn dēmăgōgíain	τῶν δημᾰγωγιῶν tôn dēmăgōgiôn
Dative	τῇ δημᾰγωγίᾳ tēî dēmăgōgíāi	τοῖν δημᾰγωγίαιν toîn dēmăgōgíain	ταῖς δημᾰγωγίαις taîs dēmăgōgíais
Accusative	τὴν δημᾰγωγίᾱν tḕn dēmăgōgíān	τὼ δημᾰγωγίᾱ tṑ dēmăgōgíā	τᾱ̀ς δημᾰγωγίᾱς tā̀s dēmăgōgíās
Vocative	δημᾰγωγίᾱ dēmăgōgíā	δημᾰγωγίᾱ dēmăgōgíā	δημᾰγωγίαι dēmăgōgíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Belarusian: дэмаго́гія (demahóhija) (learned)
• → Latin: dēmagōgia
  • → Czech: demagogie (learned)
  • → Dutch: demagogie (learned)
  • → English: demagogy (learned)
  • → Finnish: demagogia (learned)
  • → French: démagogie (learned)
  • → German: Demagogie (learned)
  • → Galician: demagoxia (learned)
  • → Hungarian: demagógia (learned)
  • → Italian: demagogia (learned)
  • → Polish: demagogia (learned)
  • → Portuguese: demagogia (learned)
  • → Romanian: demagogie (learned)
  • → Spanish: demagogia (learned)
• → Russian: демаго́гия (demagógija) (learned)
• → Ukrainian: демаго́гія (demahóhija) (learned)

Further reading

• “δημαγωγία” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “δημαγωγία” in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• δημαγωγία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “δημαγωγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δημαγωγία in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn