παράδοση

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek παράδοσις (parádosis) + modern ending -ση (-si), thus παρά- (pará-) +‎ δόση f (dósi, “dose, portion, gift”). The Triantafyllidis Dictionary suggests that the sense of "tradition" is influenced by semantic loan from French tradition and German Überlieferung,^[1] which are themselves from traditio, which in had its sense of "tradition" ("saying or teaching handed down generationally, especially ecclesiastical tradition") influenced by the Koine Greek παράδοσις (parádosis)

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾa.ðo.si/
• Hyphenation: πα‧ρά‧δο‧ση

παράδοση • (parádosi) f (plural παραδόσεις)

1. delivery (of goods, parcels, etc)
2. tradition
3. (military) surrender
4. (education) lecture

Older or formal genitive singular: παραδόσεως (paradóseos)

• (distribution): μοίρασμα n (moírasma), παροχή f (parochí)
• (delivery): διανομή f (dianomí), ντελίβερι n (ntelíveri)

• (antonym(s) of “delivery”): παραλαβή f (paralaví)
• (antonym(s) of “delivery”): παράληψη f (parálipsi) (idiomatic)

• παραδοσιακός (paradosiakós, “traditional”)
• παραδίνω (paradíno), παραδίδω (paradído)

• and see: δόση f (dósi, “dose”), δίνω (díno, “give”), δίδω (dído)