ἰσηγορία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰσηγορίη (isēgoríē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἴσος (ísos, “equal, same”) +‎ ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to say, speak in the assembly”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.sɛː.ɡo.rí.aː/ → /i.si.ɣoˈri.a/ → /i.si.ɣoˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.sɛː.ɡo.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.se̝.ɡoˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.si.ɣoˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.si.ɣoˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.si.ɣoˈri.a/

Noun

ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ • (isēgoríā) f (genitive ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. equal right to speak, equality of all in freedom of speech, particularly in the public assembly
   • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 291
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.10
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 124
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On the Good King According to Homer p.20O
2. political equality in general, equal rights
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.78

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ hē isēgoríā	τὼ ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ tṑ isēgoríā	αἱ ἰσηγορῐ́αι hai isēgoríai
Genitive	τῆς ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱς tês isēgoríās	τοῖν ἰσηγορῐ́αιν toîn isēgoríain	τῶν ἰσηγορῐῶν tôn isēgoriôn
Dative	τῇ ἰσηγορῐ́ᾳ têi isēgoríāi	τοῖν ἰσηγορῐ́αιν toîn isēgoríain	ταῖς ἰσηγορῐ́αις taîs isēgoríais
Accusative	τὴν ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱν tḕn isēgoríān	τὼ ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ tṑ isēgoríā	τᾱ̀ς ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱς tā̀s isēgoríās
Vocative	ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ isēgoríā	ἰσηγορῐ́ᾱ isēgoríā	ἰσηγορῐ́αι isēgoríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: isegoria, isogoria, isegory

Further reading

• “ἰσηγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰσηγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰσηγορία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • free idem, page 343.