διακονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διάκονος (diákonos, “servant”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.aː.ko.ní.aː/ → /ði.a.koˈni.a/ → /ði.a.koˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.aː.ko.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.a.koˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/

Noun

δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ • (diākoníā) f (genitive δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. service
2. ministry
3. body of servants
4. instruments of service

Inflection

First declension of ἡ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ hē diākoníā	τὼ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ tṑ diākoníā	αἱ δῐᾱκονῐ́αι hai diākoníai
Genitive	τῆς δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς tês diākoníās	τοῖν δῐᾱκονῐ́αιν toîn diākoníain	τῶν δῐᾱκονῐῶν tôn diākoniôn
Dative	τῇ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾳ têi diākoníāi	τοῖν δῐᾱκονῐ́αιν toîn diākoníain	ταῖς δῐᾱκονῐ́αις taîs diākoníais
Accusative	τὴν δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱν tḕn diākoníān	τὼ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ tṑ diākoníā	τᾱ̀ς δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s diākoníās
Vocative	δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ diākoníā	δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ diākoníā	δῐᾱκονῐ́αι diākoníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “διακονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διακονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διακονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• διακονία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1248 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• διακονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attendance idem, page 51.
  • ministration idem, page 531.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • waiting idem, page 959.