ἔκδοσις

See also: ἐκδόσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἔσδοσις (ésdosis) — Arcadocypriot

Etymology

ἐκδῐ́δωμῐ (ekdídōmi, “give up, surrender”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) +‎ δῐ́δωμῐ (dídōmi, “give”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /éɡ.do.sis/ → /ˈeɡ.ðo.sis/ → /ˈeɡ.ðo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /éɡ.do.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.do.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.ðo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.ðo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.ðo.sis/

Noun

ἔκδοσῐς • (ékdosis) f (genitive ἐκδόσῐος or ἐκδόσεως); third declension

1. giving up, surrendering
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.159
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 310e
   1. giving in marriage, dowering
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 924d
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 13352
   2. letting, hiring, farming out
      • PPetr. 3p.148
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.17.4
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cato the Elder 19
   3. lending money on ships or exported goods, bottomry
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 27.11
        , 29.35
   4. publication of a book
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Ammaeus 1.10
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Tact.Praef. 4
      1. a publication, treatise
         • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 3.4
           , 313.6
         • c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, De vita Pythagorica 23.104
      2. edition of an author’s work
         • Hephaestio, Poëm. p.74C.
         • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 89.22
      3. translation
         • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.2.4
2. bursting forth
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Imagines 2.17
   1. delivery
      • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.71
   2. motions of the bowels
      • Archig. ap. Aët. 6.27

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἔκδοσῐς; τῆς ἐκδόσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔκδοσῐς hē ékdosis	τὼ ἐκδόσει tṑ ekdósei	αἱ ἐκδόσεις hai ekdóseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐκδόσεως tês ekdóseōs	τοῖν ἐκδοσέοιν toîn ekdoséoin	τῶν ἐκδόσεων tôn ekdóseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐκδόσει têi ekdósei	τοῖν ἐκδοσέοιν toîn ekdoséoin	ταῖς ἐκδόσεσῐ / ἐκδόσεσῐν taîs ekdósesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔκδοσῐν tḕn ékdosin	τὼ ἐκδόσει tṑ ekdósei	τᾱ̀ς ἐκδόσεις tā̀s ekdóseis
Vocative	ἔκδοσῐ ékdosi	ἐκδόσει ekdósei	ἐκδόσεις ekdóseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ ἔκδοσῐς; τῆς ἐκδόσῐος (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔκδοσῐς hē ékdosis	τὼ ἐκδόσῐε tṑ ekdósie	αἱ ἐκδόσῐες hai ekdósies
Genitive	τῆς ἐκδόσῐος tês ekdósios	τοῖν ἐκδοσῐ́οιν toîn ekdosíoin	τῶν ἐκδοσῐ́ων tôn ekdosíōn
Dative	τῇ ἐκδόσῑ têi ekdósī	τοῖν ἐκδοσῐ́οιν toîn ekdosíoin	τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν ἐκδόσῐσῐ / ἐκδόσῐσῐν têisi(n) ekdósisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔκδοσῐν tḕn ékdosin	τὼ ἐκδόσῐε tṑ ekdósie	τᾱ̀ς ἐκδόσῑς / ἐκδόσῐᾰς tā̀s ekdósīs / ekdósias
Vocative	ἔκδοσῐ ékdosi	ἐκδόσῐε ekdósie	ἐκδόσῐες ekdósies
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Descendants

• Greek: έκδοση (ékdosi)

References

• “ἔκδοσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔκδοσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔκδοσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔκδοσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • betrothal idem, page 77.
  • bottomry idem, page 90.
  • espousal idem, page 282.
  • portioning idem, page 627.