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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

  • εἶτα ξαίνειν ἐσ καλαθίσκον κοινὴν εὔνοιαν, ἅπαντασ καταμιγνύντασ τούσ τε μετοίκουσ κεἴ τισ ξένοσ ἢ φίλοσ ὑμῖν, κεἴ τισ ὀφείλει τῷ δημοσίῳ, καὶ τούτουσ ἐγκαταμεῖξαι· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme21)
  • καὶ γὰρ θανάτου ἄξια πολλὰ πρότερον ἕτερα διαπέπρακται, καὶ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ πλείω χρόνον ἢ ἔξω διατέτριφε, καὶ ὀφείλων τῷ δημοσίῳ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιτίμων γέγραφεν οὐκ ἐξὸν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἕτερα πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ πεποίηκε, περὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ἀκριβέστερον ἐμοῦ γιγνώσκετε· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 3:2)
  • οὐ τὸ τελευταῖον οὗτοσ ἐνδειχθεὶσ ὑπὸ Λυκούργου, καὶ ἐξελεγχθεὶσ ὀφείλων τῷ δημοσίῳ λέγειν οὐκ ἐξὸν αὐτῷ, καὶ παραδοθεὶσ τοῖσ ἕνδεκα κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, περιπατῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν δικαστηρίων . (Dinarchus, Speeches, 16:1)
  • τῆσ δ’ Ἀριστείδου τοῦ πρωτεύσαντοσ Ἑλλήνων γενεᾶσ ἡ πολλὴ καὶ ἄποροσ πενίᾳ τοὺσ μέν εἰσ ἀγυρτικοὺσ κατέβαλε πίνακασ, τοὺσ δὲ δημοσίῳ τὰσ χεῖρασ ἐράνῳ δι’ ἔνδειαν ὑπέχειν ἠνάγκασεν, οὐδενὶ δὲ λαμπρὸν οὐδέν οὐδ’ ἄξιον ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ φρονῆσαι παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 3 6:3)
  • δικάζειν δ’ ἔξεστιν τοῖσ ὑπὲρ λ ἔτη γεγονόσιν, ὅσοι αὐτῶν μὴ ὀφείλουσιν τῷ δημοσίῳ ἢ ἄτιμοί εἰσιν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 63 3:1)

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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