κοινότης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
κοινός (koinós) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /koi̯.nó.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈno.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈno.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈno.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈno.tis/
Noun
κοινότης • (koinótēs) f (genitive κοινότητος); third declension
- a sharing in common, community, partnership
- (politics) absence of privileges or distinctions
- (grammar) use of a common word in two clauses
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κοινότης hē koinótēs |
τὼ κοινότητε tṑ koinótēte |
αἱ κοινότητες hai koinótētes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κοινότητος tês koinótētos |
τοῖν κοινοτήτοιν toîn koinotḗtoin |
τῶν κοινοτήτων tôn koinotḗtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κοινότητῐ tēî koinótētĭ |
τοῖν κοινοτήτοιν toîn koinotḗtoin |
ταῖς κοινότησῐ / κοινότησῐν taîs koinótēsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κοινότητᾰ tḕn koinótētă |
τὼ κοινότητε tṑ koinótēte |
τᾱ̀ς κοινότητᾰς tā̀s koinótētăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κοινότης koinótēs |
κοινότητε koinótēte |
κοινότητες koinótētes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κοινότητα (koinótita)
Further reading
- “κοινότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κοινότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κοινότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κοινότης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011