διακόσμησις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- διακόσμᾱσις (diakósmāsis) – hyperdorian
- 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Ocellus Lucanus, Collected Works 1.8
Etymology
Stem διακοσμη- of verb διακοσμέω (diakosméō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.a.kóz.mɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /di.aˈkoz.me̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
Noun
δῐᾰκόσμησῐς • (diakósmēsis) f (genitive δῐᾰκοσμήσεως); third declension
- setting in order, regulation
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 209a:[1]
- καὶ καλλίστη τῆς φρονήσεως ἡ περὶ τὰ τῶν πόλεών τε καὶ οἰκήσεων διακόσμησις
- kaì kallístē tês phronḗseōs hē perì tà tôn póleṓn te kaì oikḗseōn diakósmēsis
- Translation by Harold N. Fowler
- the highest and fairest part of prudence is that which concerns the regulation of cities and habitations
- καὶ καλλίστη τῆς φρονήσεως ἡ περὶ τὰ τῶν πόλεών τε καὶ οἰκήσεων διακόσμησις
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 853a:
- τὴν τῆς διακοσμήσεως τῶν νόμων
- tḕn tês diakosmḗseōs tôn nómōn
- the method of legislation
- τὴν τῆς διακοσμήσεως τῶν νόμων
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Household Management p.35.J.
- 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 17
- iii B.C., OGI 56.46:
- τοῦ πόλου
- toû pólou
- of the axis
- τοῦ πόλου
- the orderly arrangement of the Universe (especially in the Pythagorean system)
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 986a.6
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 4
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 12.20
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 9.27
- 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, Antr. 6
- Stoic technical term, of the "new order" after ἐκπύρωσις (ekpúrōsis)
- Zeno, Stoic. 1.28
- order, class of beings
- 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 144
- C.E. 515–529, Damascius Diadochus, Charles-Émile Ruelle, editor, Ἀπορίαι καὶ λύσεις περὶ τῶν πρώτων ἀρχῶν εἰς τὸν Πλάτωνος Παρμενίδην [Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles in Plato’s Parmenides], volume II of II, Paris: C. Klincksieck, bibliopola, published 1889, ¶ 301, lines 5–8, page 169:
- Περὶ τῆς τρίτης τῶν νοερῶν διακοσμήσεως τάδε προδιαπορητέον, ἓν μέν, διὰ τί μετὰ κίνησιν καὶ στάσιν ταυτότης καὶ ἑτερότης, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ ἕτερον καὶ ταὐτὸν μετὰ τὸ κινούμενον καὶ ἑστώς.
- Perì tês trítēs tôn noerôn diakosmḗseōs táde prodiaporētéon, hèn mén, dià tí metà kínēsin kaì stásin tautótēs kaì heterótēs, mâllon dè tò héteron kaì tautòn metà tò kinoúmenon kaì hestṓs.
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- ornamentation
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.31.6:
- πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θριάμβου διακόσμησιν
- pròs tḕn toû thriámbou diakósmēsin
- for the ornamentation of the triumphal procession
- πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θριάμβου διακόσμησιν
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς; τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς hē diakósmēsis | τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ diakosmḗsei | αἱ δῐᾰκοσμήσεις hai diakosmḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως tês diakosmḗseōs | τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn diakosmēséoin | τῶν δῐᾰκοσμήσεων tôn diakosmḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δῐᾰκοσμήσει têi diakosmḗsei | τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn diakosmēséoin | ταῖς δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐ / δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐν taîs diakosmḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δῐᾰκόσμησῐν tḕn diakósmēsin | τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ diakosmḗsei | τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰκοσμήσεις tā̀s diakosmḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | δῐᾰκόσμησῐ diakósmēsi | δῐᾰκοσμήσει diakosmḗsei | δῐᾰκοσμήσεις diakosmḗseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- διακοσμητικός (diakosmētikós)
References
- Plato in Twelve Volumes translated by Harold N. Fowler, Vol. 9, Harvard University Press, 1925 209a@perseus.tufts.edu
Further reading
- “διακόσμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διακόσμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διακόσμησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διακόσμησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)