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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

  • ἡ γοῦν χορεία τῶν ἀστέρων καὶ ἡ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀπλανεῖσ τῶν πλανήτων συμπλοκὴ καὶ εὔρυθμοσ αὐτῶν κοινωνία καὶ εὔτακτοσ ἁρμονία τῆσ πρωτογόνου ὀρχήσεωσ δείγματά ἐστιν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 7:4)
  • ὅταν γὰρ μὴ δυνατοὶ ὦσι τούτου τυγχάνειν, διαλύεται καὶ ἡ κοινωνία. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 4:3)
  • κοινωνία γὰρ φύσει τῷ θήλει καὶ τῷ ἄρρενι μάλιστά ἐστιν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 14:2)
  • ὥστ’ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ αὐτῶν ἡ κοινωνία συνέστηκεν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 14:5)
  • τίσ δαὶ κατόπτρου καὶ ξίφουσ κοινωνία; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics11)
  • καὶ ἐν φιλίᾳ αὐτῆσ τέρψισ ἀγαθὴ καὶ ἐν πόνοισ χειρῶν αὐτῆσ πλοῦτοσ ἀνεκλιπὴσ καὶ ἐν συγγυμνασίᾳ ὁμιλίασ αὐτῆσ φρόνησισ καὶ εὔκλεια ἐν κοινωνίᾳ λόγων αὐτῆσ, περιῄειν ζητῶν ὅπωσ λάβω αὐτὴν εἰσ ἐμαυτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 8:18)

Synonyms

  1. communion

  2. communion with

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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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