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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

  • εἰσὶν ἢ μόριον τῶν τῆσ πόλεωσ κοινωνιῶν, οἱο͂ν ἡ τῶν φρατέρων ἢ τῶν ὀργίων, ἢ αἱ χρηματιστικαὶ ἔτι πολιτεῖαι. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 162:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων κοινωνιῶν οὕτω συμβαίνει. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 184:2)
  • ἔνιαι δὲ τῶν κοινωνιῶν δι’ ἡδονὴν δοκοῦσι γίνεσθαι, θιασωτῶν καὶ ἐρανιστῶν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 95:1)
  • ἐκ μὲν οὖν τούτων τῶν δύο κοινωνιῶν οἰκία πρώτη, καὶ ὀρθῶσ Ἡσίοδοσ εἶπε ποιήσασ οἶκον μὲν πρώτιστα γυναῖκά τε βοῦν τ’ ἀροτῆρα· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 13:4)
  • ἀλλὰ θεωροῦμεν ὀλίγουσ τοὺσ ἐκ τῶν κοινωνιῶν διαφερομένουσ, πρὸσ πολλοὺσ συμβάλλοντεσ τοὺσ κεκτημένουσ ἰδίᾳ τὰσ κτήσεισ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 72:1)

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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