πολιτεία
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 18 April 2014
Alternative forms
- πολῑτηίη (polītēíē) – Ionic
Etymology
From πολῑ́της (polī́tēs, “citizen”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.liː.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/
Noun
πολῑτείᾱ • (polīteíā) f (genitive πολιτείᾱς); first declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
- the relation in which a citizen stands to the state, the condition and rights of a citizen, citizenship
- Herodotus, Histories 9.34
- Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.6
- the life of a citizen, one's daily life
- Andocides, Collected Works 21.7
- the body of citizens
- Plato, The Republic 4.4.31
- the life and business of a statesman, government, administration
- Aristophanes, The Knights 219
- civil polity, the condition or constitution of a state
- Antiphanes 120.40
- a well-ordered republican government, a commonwealth
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.10.1
- a free community, republic
- Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 1.1
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πολῑτείᾱ; τῆς πολῑτείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πολῑτείᾱ hē polīteíā | τὼ πολῑτείᾱ tṑ polīteíā | αἱ πολῑτεῖαι hai polīteîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πολῑτείᾱς tês polīteíās | τοῖν πολῑτείαιν toîn polīteíain | τῶν πολῑτειῶν tôn polīteiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πολῑτείᾳ têi polīteíāi | τοῖν πολῑτείαιν toîn polīteíain | ταῖς πολῑτείαις taîs polīteíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πολῑτείᾱν tḕn polīteíān | τὼ πολῑτείᾱ tṑ polīteíā | τᾱ̀ς πολῑτείᾱς tā̀s polīteíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πολῑτείᾱ polīteíā | πολῑτείᾱ polīteíā | πολῑτεῖαι polīteîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: politeia
- Greek: πολιτεία (politeía)
- → Latin: polītīa (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “πολιτεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πολιτεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πολιτεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4174 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.
- citizenship idem, page 133.
- city idem, page 133.
- commonwealth idem, page 149.
- community idem, page 149.
- constitution idem, page 164.
- constitutional idem, page 165.
- government idem, page 368.
- policy idem, page 624.
- polity idem, page 625.
- public idem, page 655.
- republic idem, page 699.
- state idem, page 812.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/
- Hyphenation: πο‧λι‧τεί‧α
Noun
πολιτεία • (politeía) f (plural πολιτείες)
- state
- οι 50 πολιτείες των ΗΠΑ ― oi 50 politeíes ton IPA ― the 50 states of the USA
- city, place
- η χαμένη πολιτεία του Μάτσου Πίκτσου
- i chaméni politeía tou Mátsou Píktsou
- the lost city of Machu Picchu
- Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν μια πολιτεία παράξενη, καμωμένη πάνω σ’ ένα δέντρο.
- Mia forá ki énan kairó ítan mia politeía paráxeni, kamoméni páno s’ éna déntro.
- Once upon a time there was a strange city, built on a tree.
- government, republic
- body politic, polity
Declension
declension of πολιτεία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | πολιτεία • | πολιτείες • |
genitive | πολιτείας • | πολιτειών • |
accusative | πολιτεία • | πολιτείες • |
vocative | πολιτεία • | πολιτείες • |
Synonyms
- (city): πόλη f (póli)
- (large city): άστυ n (ásty)
- (state): επικράτεια f (epikráteia)
Related terms
- see: πόλη f (póli, “town, city”)
Further reading
- πολιτεία - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
- πολιτεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el