διακόσμησις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• διακόσμᾱσις (diakósmāsis) — hyperdorian
  • 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Ocellus Lucanus, Collected Works 1.8

Etymology

Stem διακοσμη- of verb διακοσμέω (diakosméō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.a.kóz.mɛː.sis/ → /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/ → /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.a.kóz.mɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.aˈkoz.me̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/

Noun

δῐᾰκόσμησῐς • (diakósmēsis) f (genitive δῐᾰκοσμήσεως); third declension

1. setting in order, regulation
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 209a:

     καὶ καλλίστη τῆς φρονήσεως ἡ περὶ τὰ τῶν πόλεών τε καὶ οἰκήσεων διακόσμησις

     kaì kallístē tês phronḗseōs hē perì tà tôn póleṓn te kaì oikḗseōn diakósmēsis

     • Translation by Harold N. Fowler

       the highest and fairest part of prudence is that which concerns the regulation of cities and habitations

   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 853a:

     τὴν τῆς διακοσμήσεως τῶν νόμων

     tḕn tês diakosmḗseōs tôn nómōn

     the method of legislation

   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Household Management p.35.J.
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 17
   • iii B.C., Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 56.46:

     τοῦ πόλου

     toû pólou

     of the axis

2. the orderly arrangement of the Universe (especially in the Pythagorean system)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 986a.6
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 4
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 12.20
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 9.27
   • 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, Antr. 6
3. Stoic technical term, of the "new order" after ἐκπύρωσις (ekpúrōsis)
   • c. 334 BCE – c. 262 BCE, Zeno of Citium, The Stoic 1.28
4. order, class of beings
   • 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 144
   • C.E. 515–529, Damascius Diadochus, edited by Charles-Émile Ruelle, Ἀπορίαι καὶ λύσεις περὶ τῶν πρώτων ἀρχῶν εἰς τὸν Πλάτωνος Παρμενίδην [Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles in Plato’s Parmenides], volume II of II, Paris: C. Klincksieck, bibliopola, published 1889, ¶ 301, page 169, lines 5–8:

     Περὶ τῆς τρίτης τῶν νοερῶν διακοσμήσεως τάδε προδιαπορητέον, ἓν μέν, διὰ τί μετὰ κίνησιν καὶ στάσιν ταυτότης καὶ ἑτερότης, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ ἕτερον καὶ ταὐτὸν μετὰ τὸ κινούμενον καὶ ἑστώς.

     Perì tês trítēs tôn noerôn diakosmḗseōs táde prodiaporētéon, hèn mén, dià tí metà kínēsin kaì stásin tautótēs kaì heterótēs, mâllon dè tò héteron kaì tautòn metà tò kinoúmenon kaì hestṓs.

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5. ornamentation
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.31.6:

     πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θριάμβου διακόσμησιν

     pròs tḕn toû thriámbou diakósmēsin

     for the ornamentation of the triumphal procession

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς; τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς hē diakósmēsis	τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ diakosmḗsei	αἱ δῐᾰκοσμήσεις hai diakosmḗseis
Genitive	τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως tês diakosmḗseōs	τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn diakosmēséoin	τῶν δῐᾰκοσμήσεων tôn diakosmḗseōn
Dative	τῇ δῐᾰκοσμήσει têi diakosmḗsei	τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn diakosmēséoin	ταῖς δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐ / δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐν taîs diakosmḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῐᾰκόσμησῐν tḕn diakósmēsin	τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ diakosmḗsei	τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰκοσμήσεις tā̀s diakosmḗseis
Vocative	δῐᾰκόσμησῐ diakósmēsi	δῐᾰκοσμήσει diakosmḗsei	δῐᾰκοσμήσεις diakosmḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• διακοσμητικός (diakosmētikós)

Further reading

• “διακόσμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διακόσμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διακόσμησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διακόσμησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)