ἐκλογή

See also: εκλογή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐκλέγω (eklégō) +‎ -ή (-ḗ)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.klo.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /e.kloˈʝi/ → /e.kloˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.klo.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.kloˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.kloˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.kloˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.kloˈʝi/

Noun

ἐκλογή • (eklogḗ) f (genitive ἐκλογῆς); first declension

1. choice, selection
2. extract (portion of a document)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐκλογή; τῆς ἐκλογῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐκλογή hē eklogḗ	τὼ ἐκλογᾱ́ tṑ eklogā́	αἱ ἐκλογαί hai eklogaí
Genitive	τῆς ἐκλογῆς tês eklogês	τοῖν ἐκλογαῖν toîn eklogaîn	τῶν ἐκλογῶν tôn eklogôn
Dative	τῇ ἐκλογῇ têi eklogêi	τοῖν ἐκλογαῖν toîn eklogaîn	ταῖς ἐκλογαῖς taîs eklogaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἐκλογήν tḕn eklogḗn	τὼ ἐκλογᾱ́ tṑ eklogā́	τᾱ̀ς ἐκλογᾱ́ς tā̀s eklogā́s
Vocative	ἐκλογή eklogḗ	ἐκλογᾱ́ eklogā́	ἐκλογαί eklogaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εκλογή (eklogí)
• →⇒ English: eclogite
• → Esperanto: eklogo
• → Latin: ecloga
  • → English: eclogue
  • → Finnish: eklogi
  • French: églogue
  • Italian: ecloga, egloga
  • Spanish: égloga

Further reading

• ἐκλογή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐκλογή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐκλογή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἐκλογή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G1589 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • choice idem, page 131.
  • selection idem, page 750.