Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἔσδοσις ‎(ésdosis) Arcadocypriot

Noun

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

1. giving up, surrendering
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.159
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   1. giving in marriage, dowering
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 924.d
      • 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, Cat.Ma. 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, Amm. 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
         • 245 CE – 325 CE, Iamblichus, On the Pythagorean Way of Life 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

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 (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • betrothal idem, page 77.
  • bottomry idem, page 90.
  • espousal idem, page 282.
  • portioning idem, page 627.