εἰσαγωγή

εἰσαγωγή

See also: εισαγωγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἰσ- (eis-, “into”) +‎ ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, “bringing, leading”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.sa.ɡɔː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/ → /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.sa.ɡɔː.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɡoˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/

Noun

εἰσᾰγωγή • (eisagōgḗ) f (genitive εἰσᾰγωγῆς); first declension

1. a bringing in
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.3.8
   • IGRom. 3.804
   • PSI 5.500
   1. an introduction (as of heirs by adoption or of children to a φρατρία)
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 10.9
      • IG 22.1237.108
   2. importation of goods etc.
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 847d
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1360a.14
      • SIG 278.11
   3. raising of taxes
      • PAmh. 2.31.6
2. (law) a bringing of causes into court
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 855d
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 4.12
3. an introduction to a subject, an elementary teaching
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 56.12
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Amm. 2.1
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.487
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.29.23
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 8.428
   1. an elementary treatise (as the title of a work by Chrysippus)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.43f
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Libr.Propr.Prooem.
4. a channel of entrance to a harbour
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.18
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Peripl.M.Rubr. 37
5. the office of an εἰσαγωγεύς
   • AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον

Declension

First declension of ἡ εἰσᾰγωγή; τῆς εἰσᾰγωγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰσᾰγωγή hē eisagōgḗ	τὼ εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ tṑ eisagōgā́	αἱ εἰσᾰγωγαί hai eisagōgaí
Genitive	τῆς εἰσᾰγωγῆς tês eisagōgês	τοῖν εἰσᾰγωγαῖν toîn eisagōgaîn	τῶν εἰσᾰγωγῶν tôn eisagōgôn
Dative	τῇ εἰσᾰγωγῇ têi eisagōgêi	τοῖν εἰσᾰγωγαῖν toîn eisagōgaîn	ταῖς εἰσᾰγωγαῖς taîs eisagōgaîs
Accusative	τὴν εἰσᾰγωγήν tḕn eisagōgḗn	τὼ εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ tṑ eisagōgā́	τᾱ̀ς εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ς tā̀s eisagōgā́s
Vocative	εἰσᾰγωγή eisagōgḗ	εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ eisagōgā́	εἰσᾰγωγαί eisagōgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εισαγωγή (eisagogí)

References

• “εἰσᾰγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰσαγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰσαγωγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἰσαγωγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admission idem, page 12.
  • carrying idem, page 115.
  • importation idem, page 422.