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κοινωνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοινωνία

Structure: κοινωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: koinwne/w

Sense

  1. communion, association, partnership, fellowship
  2. communion with, partnership in, communion
  3. a common gift, contribution, alms

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κοινωνία κοινωνίᾱ κοινωνίαι
Genitive κοινωνίᾱς κοινωνίαιν κοινωνιῶν
Dative κοινωνίᾱͅ κοινωνίαιν κοινωνίαις
Accusative κοινωνίᾱν κοινωνίᾱ κοινωνίᾱς
Vocative κοινωνίᾱ κοινωνίᾱ κοινωνίαι

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

  • ὦ λυγραὶ φιλημάτων τέρψεισ, λυγραὶ δὲ τῶνδ’ ὅπλων κοινωνίαι. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:19)
  • αἱ δὲ κοινωνίαι πᾶσαι μορίοισ ἐοίκασι τῆσ πολιτικῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 93:2)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλαι κοινωνίαι κατὰ μέρη τοῦ συμφέροντοσ ἐφίενται, οἱο͂ν πλωτῆρεσ μὲν τοῦ κατὰ τὸν πλοῦν πρὸσ ἐργασίαν χρημάτων ἤ τι τοιοῦτον, συστρατιῶται δὲ τοῦ κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον, εἴτε χρημάτων εἴτε νίκησ ἢ πόλεωσ ὀρεγόμενοι, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ φυλέται καὶ δημόται. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 94:3)
  • πᾶσαι δὴ φαίνονται αἱ κοινωνίαι μόρια τῆσ πολιτικῆσ εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 97:2)
  • διὸ πᾶσα πόλισ φύσει ἔστιν, εἴπερ καὶ αἱ πρῶται κοινωνίαι. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. communion

  2. communion with

Related

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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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