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κοινωνία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: koinōnia

Principal Part: κοινωνία

Structure: κοινωνι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First declension

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

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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