διακόσμησις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

διακόσμᾱσις (diakósmāsis) — hyperdorian
- 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Ocellus Lucanus, Collected Works 1.8

Etymology

Stem διακοσμη- of verb διακοσμέω (diakosméō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.a.kóz.mɛː.sis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.aˈkoz.me̝.sis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.aˈkoz.mi.sis/

Noun

δῐᾰκόσμησῐς • (dĭăkósmēsĭs) f (genitive δῐᾰκοσμήσεως); third declension

setting in order, regulation
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 209a:^[1]
  καὶ καλλίστη τῆς φρονήσεως ἡ περὶ τὰ τῶν πόλεών τε καὶ οἰκήσεων διακόσμησις
  kaì kallístē tês phronḗseōs hē perì tà tôn póleṓn te kaì oikḗseōn diakósmēsis
  Translation by Harold N. Fowler
  the highest and fairest part of prudence is that which concerns the regulation of cities and habitations
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 853a:
  τὴν τῆς διακοσμήσεως τῶν νόμων
  tḕn tês diakosmḗseōs tôn nómōn
  the method of legislation
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Household Management p.35.J.
- 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 17
- iii B.C., Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 56.46:
  τοῦ πόλου
  toû pólou
  of the axis
the orderly arrangement of the Universe (especially in the Pythagorean system)
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 986a.6
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 4
- 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 12.20
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 9.27
- 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, Antr. 6
Stoic technical term, of the "new order" after ἐκπύρωσις (ekpúrōsis)
- c. 334 BCE – c. 262 BCE, Zeno of Citium, The Stoic 1.28
order, class of beings
- 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 144
- C.E. 515–529, Damascius Diadochus, edited by Charles-Émile Ruelle, Ἀπορίαι καὶ λύσεις περὶ τῶν πρώτων ἀρχῶν εἰς τὸν Πλάτωνος Παρμενίδην [Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles in Plato’s Parmenides], volume II of II, Paris: C. Klincksieck, bibliopola, published 1889, ¶ 301, page 169, lines 5–8:
  Περὶ τῆς τρίτης τῶν νοερῶν διακοσμήσεως τάδε προδιαπορητέον, ἓν μέν, διὰ τί μετὰ κίνησιν καὶ στάσιν ταυτότης καὶ ἑτερότης, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ ἕτερον καὶ ταὐτὸν μετὰ τὸ κινούμενον καὶ ἑστώς.
  Perì tês trítēs tôn noerôn diakosmḗseōs táde prodiaporētéon, hèn mén, dià tí metà kínēsin kaì stásin tautótēs kaì heterótēs, mâllon dè tò héteron kaì tautòn metà tò kinoúmenon kaì hestṓs.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
ornamentation
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.31.6:
  πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θριάμβου διακόσμησιν
  pròs tḕn toû thriámbou diakósmēsin
  for the ornamentation of the triumphal procession

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς; τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐᾰκόσμησῐς hē dĭăkósmēsĭs	τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ dĭăkosmḗsei	αἱ δῐᾰκοσμήσεις hai dĭăkosmḗseis
Genitive	τῆς δῐᾰκοσμήσεως tês dĭăkosmḗseōs	τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn dĭăkosmēséoin	τῶν δῐᾰκοσμήσεων tôn dĭăkosmḗseōn
Dative	τῇ δῐᾰκοσμήσει têi dĭăkosmḗsei	τοῖν δῐᾰκοσμησέοιν toîn dĭăkosmēséoin	ταῖς δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐ / δῐᾰκοσμήσεσῐν taîs dĭăkosmḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῐᾰκόσμησῐν tḕn dĭăkósmēsĭn	τὼ δῐᾰκοσμήσει tṑ dĭăkosmḗsei	τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰκοσμήσεις tā̀s dĭăkosmḗseis
Vocative	δῐᾰκόσμησῐ dĭăkósmēsĭ	δῐᾰκοσμήσει dĭăkosmḗsei	δῐᾰκοσμήσεις dĭăkosmḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

διακοσμητικός (diakosmētikós)

Descendants

→ Greek: διακόσμηση (diakósmisi) (learned)

References

^ Plato in Twelve Volumes translated by Harold N. Fowler, Vol. 9, Harvard University Press, 1925 209a@perseus.tufts.edu

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