ἡγεμονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛː.ɡe.mo.ní.aː/ → /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/ → /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛː.ɡe.mo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e̝.ɡe.moˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/

Noun

ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ • (hēgemoníā) f (genitive ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. the act of leading
2. supreme power, supremacy, command
3. office of governor, reign
4. a division of the army under its officer
5. chief thing, principal part

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ hē hēgemoníā	τὼ ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēgemoníā	αἱ ἡγεμονῐ́αι hai hēgemoníai
Genitive	τῆς ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱς tês hēgemoníās	τοῖν ἡγεμονῐ́αιν toîn hēgemoníain	τῶν ἡγεμονῐῶν tôn hēgemoniôn
Dative	τῇ ἡγεμονῐ́ᾳ têi hēgemoníāi	τοῖν ἡγεμονῐ́αιν toîn hēgemoníain	ταῖς ἡγεμονῐ́αις taîs hēgemoníais
Accusative	τὴν ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱν tḕn hēgemoníān	τὼ ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēgemoníā	τᾱ̀ς ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hēgemoníās
Vocative	ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ hēgemoníā	ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ hēgemoníā	ἡγεμονῐ́αι hēgemoníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: hegemony
• Greek: ηγεμονία (igemonía)
• Italian: egemonia
• Portuguese: hegemonia
• Russian: гегемо́ния f (gegemónija)
• Sicilian: iggimunìa

Further reading

• “ἡγεμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἡγεμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἡγεμονία 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
• G2231 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.
  • ascendency idem, page 43.
  • chieftainship idem, page 129.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • headship idem, page 391.
  • leadership idem, page 482.
  • lordship idem, page 500.
  • overlordship idem, page 585.
  • paramountcy idem, page 592.
  • predominance idem, page 634.
  • primacy idem, page 640.
  • supremacy idem, page 842.
  • suzerainty idem, page 846.