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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

  • αἱ δὲ ἄρτι πρὸσ βίου κοινωνίαν γαμικὸν ὑπεληλυθυῖαι παστὸν νεάνιδεσ, ἀντὶ τέρψεωσ μεταλαβοῦσαι γόουσ καὶ κόνει τὴν μυροβραχῆ πεφυρμέναι κόμην, ἀκαλύπτωσ δὲ ἀγόμεναι, θρῆνον ἀνθ’ ὑμεναίων ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐξῆρχον ὡσ ἐσπαραγμέναι σκυλμοῖσ ἀλλοεθνέσι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:6)
  • ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ δουλεία σαφὴσ καὶ οὐ πολὺ τῶν ἀργυρωνήτων καὶ οἰκοτρίβων διαφέρουσιν οἱ ἐπὶ τῷ τοιουτωῒ εἰσιόντεσ, οἱ δὲ τὰ κοινὰ διὰ χειρὸσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ πόλεσι καὶ ἔθνεσιν ὅλοισ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ χρησίμουσ παρέχοντεσ οὐκ ἂν εἰκότωσ ἐκ μόνου τοῦ μισθοῦ διαβάλλοιντο καὶ ἐσ ὁμοιότητα καὶ κοινωνίαν τῆσ κατηγορίασ καθέλκοιντο· (Lucian, Apologia 27:1)
  • τὴν κοινωνίαν. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 18:1)
  • ὅσον προσήκει μὴ γένουσ κοινωνίαν ἔχοντι λύπῃ τὸν σὸν οἰκτίρω γόνον. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, strophe 1 1:1)
  • οὕτω προῳκονόμηται ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου ἑκατέρου ἡ φύσισ, τοῦ τε ἀνδρὸσ καὶ τῆσ γυναικόσ, πρὸσ τὴν κοινωνίαν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 17:2)

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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