διδασκαλία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διδάσκαλος (didáskalos, “teacher”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.das.ka.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /di.das.kaˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/
Noun
δῐδασκᾰλίᾱ • (didaskalíā) f (genitive δῐδασκᾰλίᾱς); first declension
- teaching, instruction, education
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.102
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Euenus, Collected Works 1
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, The Law 2
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.24
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493B
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.42
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.87
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1103A.15
- preparation, rehearsing
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 501E
- 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 147.5
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1096A
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.839D
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 8
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
- Catalogues of the Dramas of Aristotle
- 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 5.26
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1155
Inflection
First declension of ἡ διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς διδασκαλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ hē didaskalíā | τὼ διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ tṑ didaskalíā | αἱ διδασκαλῐ́αι hai didaskalíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς διδασκαλῐ́ᾱς tês didaskalíās | τοῖν διδασκαλῐ́αιν toîn didaskalíain | τῶν διδασκαλῐῶν tôn didaskaliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ διδασκαλῐ́ᾳ têi didaskalíāi | τοῖν διδασκαλῐ́αιν toîn didaskalíain | ταῖς διδασκαλῐ́αις taîs didaskalíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν διδασκαλῐ́ᾱν tḕn didaskalíān | τὼ διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ tṑ didaskalíā | τᾱ̀ς διδασκαλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s didaskalíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ didaskalíā | διδασκαλῐ́ᾱ didaskalíā | διδασκαλῐ́αι didaskalíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐκός (didaskalikós)
Descendants
- → French: didascalie
- → Italian: didascalia
Further reading
- “διδασκαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διδασκαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διδασκαλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διδασκαλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “διδασκαλία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1319 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.
- instruction idem, page 447.
- lesson idem, page 485.
- moral idem, page 540.
- teaching idem, page 859.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διδασκαλία (didaskalía, “teaching”).
Noun
διδασκαλία • (didaskalía) f (plural διδασκαλίες)
- teaching, tuition, instruction
- (by extension) doctrine, teaching
Declension
declension of διδασκαλία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | διδασκαλία • | διδασκαλίες • |
genitive | διδασκαλίας • | διδασκαλιών • |
accusative | διδασκαλία • | διδασκαλίες • |
vocative | διδασκαλία • | διδασκαλίες • |
Related terms
- αλληλοδιδασκαλία f (allilodidaskalía, “mutual instruction”)
- and see: διδάσκω (didásko, “I teach”)
Further reading
διδασκαλία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el