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δημόσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημόσιος

Structure: δημοσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to the people or state, confiscated
  2. a public servant, the public crier, a public notary
  3. the state
  4. any public building, a public hall
  5. the treasury
  6. the public prison
  7. state-property
  8. the tent of the Spartan kings
  9. at the public expense, by public consent, by the executioner
  10. at the public cost

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative δημόσιος δημοσίᾱ δημόσιον
Genitive δημοσίου δημοσίᾱς δημοσίου
Dative δημοσίῳ δημοσίᾱͅ δημοσίῳ
Accusative δημόσιον δημοσίᾱν δημόσιον
Vocative δημόσιε δημοσίᾱ δημόσιον
DualN/A/V δημοσίω δημοσίᾱ δημοσίω
G/D δημοσίοιν δημοσίαιν δημοσίοιν
PluralNominative δημόσιοι δημόσιαι δημόσια
Genitive δημοσίων δημοσιῶν δημοσίων
Dative δημοσίοις δημοσίαις δημοσίοις
Accusative δημοσίους δημοσίᾱς δημόσια
Vocative δημόσιοι δημόσιαι δημόσια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective δημόσιος δημοσίου δημοσιότερος δημοσιοτέρου δημοσιότατος δημοσιοτάτου
Adverb δημοσίως δημοσιότερον δημοσιότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • δέσμιαι δὲ δημόσιαι μέχρι τῆσ εἰσ τὸ πλοῖον ἐμβολῆσ εἵλκοντο μετὰ βίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:7)
  • ἐφ’ οἷσ εὔνοια παρὰ πάντων ἐγίνετο καὶ ζῆλοσ αὐτῷ τιμαί τε δημόσιαι καὶ ψηφίσματα παρὰ τῶν πόλεων. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 17 3:2)
  • λείπονται αἱ δημόσιαι καὶ πρεσβεῖαι πρὸσ αὐτοκράτορα ἀνδρὸσ διαπύρου καὶ θάρσοσ ἅμα καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντοσ δεόμεναι. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 10 13:1)
  • μέρη δὲ τιμῆσ θυσίαι, μνῆμαι ἐν μέτροισ καὶ ἄνευ μέτρων, γέρα, τεμένη, προεδρίαι, τάφοι, εἰκόνεσ, τροφαὶ δημόσιαι, τὰ βαρβαρικά, οἱο͂ν προσκυνήσεισ καὶ ἐκστάσεισ, δῶρα τὰ παρ’ ἑκάστοισ τίμια. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 9:4)
  • ὧν ποιησάντων τὸ προσταχθέν, καθ’ ὃν καιρὸν ἤγετο ἡ νύμφη, προηγουμένων πολλῶν τῶν τὰσ δᾷδασ φερόντων, ἡ μὲν πόλισ ἔγεμε φωτόσ, τὸ δὲ συνακολουθοῦν πλῆθοσ οὐκ ἐχώρουν αἱ δημόσιαι κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆσ ὁδοί, πάντων συμφιλοτιμουμένων τῇ τἀνδρὸσ μεγαλοπρεπείᾳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 83 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. the state

  2. the public prison

  3. at the public expense

  4. at the public cost

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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