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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰδιωτεία ἰδιωτείᾱ ἰδιωτεῖαι
Genitive ἰδιωτείᾱς ἰδιωτείαιν ἰδιωτειῶν
Dative ἰδιωτείᾱͅ ἰδιωτείαιν ἰδιωτείαις
Accusative ἰδιωτείᾱν ἰδιωτείᾱ ἰδιωτείᾱς
Vocative ἰδιωτείᾱ ἰδιωτείᾱ ἰδιωτεῖαι

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

  • ὁ πατὴρ δὲ ὑπὸ ἰδιωτείασ οὐ γὰρ οἶδεν οὔτε ἀρχὴν τοῦ κατέχοντοσ κακοῦ οὔτε τὴν αἰτίαν οὔτε τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πάθουσ ἐκέλευεν ἰᾶσθαι καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον ἐκχέαι φάρμακον οἰέται ^ γὰρ ἓν εἶναι μανίασ εἶδοσ καὶ μίαν τὴν νόσον καὶ τἀρρώστημα ταὐτὸν καὶ παραπλησίαν τὴν θεραπείαν δεχόμενον. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 7:1)
  • ἐγὼ μέντοι ἔχειν μοι δοκῶ διδάξαι σε ὡσ τὸ ἄρχειν οὐδὲν ἀποκωλύει τοῦ φιλεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλεονεκτεῖ γε τῆσ ἰδιωτείασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 2:3)
  • Καὶ τάδε μὲν ἐσ τοσοῦτον συγκεκρίσθω, καίπερ οὐκ ἐξ ἴσησ δυνάμεωσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁρμήσαντοσ αὐτῶν ἑκατέρου, ἀλλὰ τοῦ μὲν ἐκ βασιλείασ ἠσκημένησ ὑπὸ Φιλίππῳ, τοῦ δ’ ἐξ ἰδιωτείασ, εὐγενοῦσ μὲν καὶ περιφανοῦσ, χρημάτων δὲ πάνυ ἐνδεοῦσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 21 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. uncouthness

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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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