ἰδιότης

From ἴδιος (ídios) (“one’s own, peculiar”) + -της (-tēs), forming an abstract noun denoting a quality or property.

ἰδιότης • (idiótēs) f (genitive ἰδιότητος); third declension

1. peculiarity, property, specific character; distinctive quality
2. individuality; particular nature
3. (grammar) idiom, peculiarity of expression or usage

1. • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 305d:

     τῶν πράξεων τὴν ἰδιότητα σκοπεῖν

     tôn práxeōn tḕn idiótēta skopeîn

     to examine the specific character of actions

   • c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.16:

     ἡ ἰδιότης τῆς ἡδονῆς

     hē idiótēs tês hēdonês

     the particular nature of pleasure

• An abstract noun denoting a quality, property, or distinctive characteristic, formed productively in Ancient Greek from adjectives.
• The accusative form ἰδιότητα (idiótēta) served as the historical basis for the later reanalysis of **-ότητα** as a productive abstract-noun suffix in Byzantine and Modern Greek.

• ἴδιος (ídios)
• ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs) (not morphologically related in sense; personal noun)
• αἰσχρότης (aiskhrótēs)
• χρηστότης (khrēstótēs)

• Greek: ιδιότητα (idiótita)

• “ἰδιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lampe, Geoffrey William Hugo (1961), “ἰδιότης”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰδιότης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)