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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

  • μέχρι τοῦδ’ εὑρισκομένων δώδεκα λόγων, ὧν εἴρηκα, δημοσίων, ἐν οἷσ εἰσι δημηγορικοὶ μὲν ἑπτά, δικανικοὶ δὲ πέντε, ἅπαντεσ ἐγένοντο πρότεροι τῶν Ἀριστοτέλουσ τεχνῶν, ὡσ ἔκ τε τῶν ἱστορουμένων περὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀποδείξω καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γραφέντων, ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξάμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 4 3:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἰσ Χαλκίδα ἄν τινεσ ἔπλεον λόγων χάριν ἢ ἰδίων ἢ δημοσίων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 4 2:3)
  • νομίζομεν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ διά τε τὸν χαρακτῆρα ὑδαρὴσ γὰρ καὶ κεχυμένοσ καὶ ψυχρόσ καὶ ὅτι ὁ λέγων αὐτούσ, ὢν οὔτε ἄδοξοσ καὶ μετὰ Λυκοῦργον τὴν διοίκησιν τῶν δημοσίων χρημάτων παραλαβών, ἐξητασμένοσ δὲ πολλάκισ αὐτόσ, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ περὶ ἁπάντων μηνύει, καὶ ἐν ἰδίοισ καὶ ἐν δημοσίοισ ἀγῶσιν οὐκ ἂν ἦν ἀδύνατοσ, ὥστε Δεινάρχῳ λογογράφῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 11 6:3)
  • ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ τὰσ ἰδίασ οὐσίασ ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων ἐπανορθοῦν τοὺσ ἰδίουσ πλούτουσ εἰσ τὰ κοινὰ καταχορηγεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 8 1:2)
  • οὐδ’ ἂν κλέψασα γυνὴ ζεύγει κατὰ πεντήκοντα τάλαντα ἐσ πόλιν ἔλθοι τῶν δημοσίων· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, parabasis18)

Synonyms

  1. the state

  2. the public prison

  3. at the public expense

  4. at the public cost

Related

Similar forms

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

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