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ἰδιωτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰδιωτεία

Structure: ἰδιωτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from i)diw/ths

Sense

  1. private life or business
  2. uncouthness, want of education

Declension

First declension

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

  • δίκαιον μήν, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, τοῦτό γε τῇ πόλει ὑμῶν ἀποδιδόναι, ὅτι πενίᾳ καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ ἰδιωτείᾳ καὶ βασιλείᾳ διαφέρουσαν οὐδ’ ἡντινοῦν τιμὴν καὶ τροφὴν νέμετε, ἃσ μὴ τὸ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ὑμῖν θεῖον παρὰ θεοῦ διεμαντεύσατό τινοσ. (Plato, Laws, book 3 120:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀνεκτὸν εἶναι σφίσι τὸ ζῆν, εἰ Ἀγρίππασ Ἀριστοβούλου μὲν υἱὸσ ὢν θανεῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ κατεγνωσμένου, πενίᾳ δὲ ἀπόρῳ συνιών, ὡσ τελέωσ αὐτῷ ἐπικουφίζεσθαι τἀναγκαῖα τοῦ ἐφ’ ἡμέρασ, φυγῇ δὲ τῶν δεδανεικότων τὸν πλοῦν πεποιημένοσ ἐπανεληλύθοι βασιλεύσ, αὐτὸσ δέ γε ὢν παῖσ βασιλέωσ καὶ τοῦ συγγενοῦσ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ καλοῦντοσ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μεταποιήσει τῶν ἴσων καθέζοιτο ἀγαπῶν ἐν ἰδιωτείᾳ διαβιοῦν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 287:1)

Synonyms

  1. uncouthness

Related

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

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