διάγνωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “distinguish, discern”) + -σῐς (-sis), from δια- (dia-) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.á.ɡnɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /diˈa.ɡno.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ɣno.sis/
Noun
δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς • (diágnōsis) f (genitive δῐᾰγνώσῐος or δῐᾰγνώσεως); third declension
- distinguishing
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.50
- means of distinguishing or discerning
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 926
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.128
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 2.9
- (medicine) diagnosis
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, VC 10
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.766
- power of discernment
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 696
- resolving, deciding
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 6.18
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.7
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 1.34
- Metrodorus, Fragments 27
- Module:Quotations:428: attempt to compare number with nil
- (law, Christianity) examination, opinion, decision
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 25:21
- «τοῦ δὲ Παύλου ἐπῐκᾰλεσᾰμένου τηρηθῆναι αὐτὸν εις τήν τοῦ Σεβᾰστοῦ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐν ἐκέλευσᾰ τηρεῖσθαι αυτόν, ἑώς οὗ πέμψω αυτὸν πρὸς Καίσᾰρᾰ.» Acts of the Apostles 25:21 Scrivener’s 1894 Textus Receptus
- ‘toû dè Paúlou epĭkălesăménou tērēt͡hē̂nai autòn eis tḕn toû Sebăstoû dĭắgnōsĭn ekéleusă tēreîst͡hai autòn, héōs hoû pémp͡sō autòn pròs Kaísără.’
Declension
Third declension of ἡ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς; τῆς δῐᾰγνώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς hē diágnōsis | τὼ δῐᾰγνώσει tṑ diagnṓsei | αἱ δῐᾰγνώσεις hai diagnṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δῐᾰγνώσεως tês diagnṓseōs | τοῖν δῐᾰγνωσέοιν toîn diagnōséoin | τῶν δῐᾰγνώσεων tôn diagnṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δῐᾰγνώσει têi diagnṓsei | τοῖν δῐᾰγνωσέοιν toîn diagnōséoin | ταῖς δῐᾰγνώσεσῐ / δῐᾰγνώσεσῐν taîs diagnṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δῐᾰ́γνωσῐν tḕn diágnōsin | τὼ δῐᾰγνώσει tṑ diagnṓsei | τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰγνώσεις tā̀s diagnṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | δῐᾰ́γνωσῐ diágnōsi | δῐᾰγνώσει diagnṓsei | δῐᾰγνώσεις diagnṓseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: διάγνωση (diágnosi)
- Hungarian: diagnózis
- Latin: diagnōsis
- English: diagnosis
- Norman: dgiag'nose
- Russian: диагноз (diagnoz)
References
- “διάγνωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διάγνωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διάγνωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διάγνωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1233 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adjudication idem, page 12.
- award idem, page 56.
- decision idem, page 201.
- determination idem, page 219.
- discernment idem, page 229.
- discrimination idem, page 232.
- distinction idem, page 241.
- judgment idem, page 465.
- sentence idem, page 753.