διακονία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διάκονος (diákonos, “servant”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.aː.ko.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /di.a.koˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.a.koˈni.a/
Noun
δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ • (dĭākonĭ́ā) f (genitive δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ hē dĭākonĭ́ā |
τὼ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭākonĭ́ā |
αἱ δῐᾱκονῐ́αι hai dĭākonĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς tês dĭākonĭ́ās |
τοῖν δῐᾱκονῐ́αιν toîn dĭākonĭ́ain |
τῶν δῐᾱκονῐῶν tôn dĭākonĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾳ tēî dĭākonĭ́āi |
τοῖν δῐᾱκονῐ́αιν toîn dĭākonĭ́ain |
ταῖς δῐᾱκονῐ́αις taîs dĭākonĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱν tḕn dĭākonĭ́ān |
τὼ δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭākonĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱς tā̀s dĭākonĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ dĭākonĭ́ā |
δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ dĭākonĭ́ā |
δῐᾱκονῐ́αι dĭākonĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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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 (2006–2025)
- 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.