διοίκησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διοικέω (dioikéō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis), from δια- (dia-) +‎ οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.ǒi̯.kɛː.sis/ → /ðiˈy.ci.sis/ → /ðiˈi.ci.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.ǒi̯.kɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈy.ke̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈy.ci.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈy.ci.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈi.ci.sis/

Noun

δῐοίκησῐς • (dioíkēsis) f (genitive δῐοικήσεως); third declension

1. housekeeping, control, government, administration
2. one of the lesser Roman provinces
   1. (as an Ecclesiastical division) a bishop's jurisdiction, diocese

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐοίκησῐς hē dioíkēsis	τὼ δῐοικήσει tṑ dioikḗsei	αἱ δῐοικήσεις hai dioikḗseis
Genitive	τῆς δῐοικήσεως tês dioikḗseōs	τοῖν δῐοικησέοιν toîn dioikēséoin	τῶν δῐοικήσεων tôn dioikḗseōn
Dative	τῇ δῐοικήσει têi dioikḗsei	τοῖν δῐοικησέοιν toîn dioikēséoin	ταῖς δῐοικήσεσῐ / δῐοικήσεσῐν taîs dioikḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῐοίκησῐν tḕn dioíkēsin	τὼ δῐοικήσει tṑ dioikḗsei	τᾱ̀ς δῐοικήσεις tā̀s dioikḗseis
Vocative	δῐοίκησῐ dioíkēsi	δῐοικήσει dioikḗsei	δῐοικήσεις dioikḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ δῐοίκησῐς; τῆς δῐοικήσεως (Attic)

Descendants

• → Latin: dioecēsis (see there for further descendants)
• Greek: διοίκηση f (dioíkisi, “the administration”)

References

• “διοίκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διοίκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διοίκησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διοίκησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • administration idem, page 12.
  • conduct idem, page 157.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • finance idem, page 320.
  • management idem, page 511.
  • regulation idem, page 688.