Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀχλοκρατία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχλοκρατία

Structure: ὀχλοκρατι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. mob-rule

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀχλοκρατία ὀχλοκρατίᾱ ὀχλοκρατίαι
Genitive ὀχλοκρατίᾱς ὀχλοκρατίαιν ὀχλοκρατιῶν
Dative ὀχλοκρατίᾱͅ ὀχλοκρατίαιν ὀχλοκρατίαις
Accusative ὀχλοκρατίᾱν ὀχλοκρατίᾱ ὀχλοκρατίᾱς
Vocative ὀχλοκρατίᾱ ὀχλοκρατίᾱ ὀχλοκρατίαι

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

  • ὧν ἁμαρτανομένων παρατροπαὶ καὶ ὑπερχύσεισ εἰσὶν αἱ λεγόμεναι τυραννίδεσ καὶ δυναστεῖαι καὶ ὀχλοκρατίαι· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ τούτου πάλιν ὕβρεωσ καὶ παρανομίασ ἀποπληροῦται σὺν χρόνοισ ὀχλοκρατία. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 4 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. mob-rule

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION