διοίκησις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From διοικέω (dioikéō) + -σῐς (-sĭs), from δια- (dia-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.ǒi̯.kɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /diˈy.ke̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈy.ci.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈy.ci.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈi.ci.sis/
Noun
[edit]δῐοίκησῐς • (dĭoíkēsĭs) f (genitive δῐοικήσεως); third declension
- housekeeping, control, government, administration
- one of the lesser Roman provinces
- (as an Ecclesiastical division) a bishop's jurisdiction, diocese
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δῐοίκησῐς hē dĭoíkēsĭs |
τὼ δῐοικήσει tṑ dĭoikḗsei |
αἱ δῐοικήσεις hai dĭoikḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δῐοικήσεως tês dĭoikḗseōs |
τοῖν δῐοικησέοιν toîn dĭoikēséoin |
τῶν δῐοικήσεων tôn dĭoikḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δῐοικήσει têi dĭoikḗsei |
τοῖν δῐοικησέοιν toîn dĭoikēséoin |
ταῖς δῐοικήσεσῐ / δῐοικήσεσῐν taîs dĭoikḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δῐοίκησῐν tḕn dĭoíkēsĭn |
τὼ δῐοικήσει tṑ dĭoikḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς δῐοικήσεις tā̀s dĭoikḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | δῐοίκησῐ dĭoíkēsĭ |
δῐοικήσει dĭoikḗsei |
δῐοικήσεις dĭoikḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: dioecēsis (see there for further descendants)
- Greek: διοίκηση f (dioíkisi, “the administration”)
References
[edit]- “διοίκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διοίκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διοίκησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διοίκησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- administration idem, page 12.
- conduct idem, page 157.
- direction idem, page 226.
- finance idem, page 320.
- management idem, page 511.
- regulation idem, page 688.
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek terms prefixed with δια-
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension