διασπορά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to sow, to scatter”) +‎ -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.as.po.rǎː/ → /ði.as.poˈra/ → /ði.as.poˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.as.po.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.as.poˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.as.poˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.as.poˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.as.poˈra/

Noun

δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ • (dĭăsporā́) f (genitive δῐᾰσπορᾶς); first declension

1. scattering, dispersion

Declension

First declension of ἡ δῐᾰσπορᾱ́; τῆς δῐᾰσπορᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ hē dĭăsporā́	τὼ δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ tṑ dĭăsporā́	αἱ δῐᾰσποραί hai dĭăsporaí
Genitive	τῆς δῐᾰσπορᾶς tês dĭăsporâs	τοῖν δῐᾰσποραῖν toîn dĭăsporaîn	τῶν δῐᾰσπορῶν tôn dĭăsporôn
Dative	τῇ δῐᾰσπορᾷ têi dĭăsporâi	τοῖν δῐᾰσποραῖν toîn dĭăsporaîn	ταῖς δῐᾰσποραῖς taîs dĭăsporaîs
Accusative	τὴν δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ν tḕn dĭăsporā́n	τὼ δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ tṑ dĭăsporā́	τᾱ̀ς δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ς tā̀s dĭăsporā́s
Vocative	δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ dĭăsporā́	δῐᾰσπορᾱ́ dĭăsporā́	δῐᾰσποραί dĭăsporaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: διασπορά (diasporá)
• → Albanian: diasporë
• → Belarusian: дыя́спара (dyjáspara)
• → Bulgarian: диа́спора (diáspora)
• → Catalan: diàspora
• → Czech: diaspora
• → Danish: diaspora
• → Dutch: diaspora
• → English: diaspora
  • → Japanese: ディアスポラ (diasupora)
  • → Korean: 디아스포라 (diaseupora)
• → Estonian: diaspora
• → Finnish: diaspora
• → French: diaspora
  • → Romanian: diasporă
• → Galician: diáspora
• → Georgian: დიასპორა (diasṗora)
• → German: Diaspora
• → Hungarian: diaszpóra
• → Indonesian: diaspora
• → Irish: diaspóra
• → Italian: diaspora
• → Macedonian: дијаспора (dijaspora)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: diaspora
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: diaspora
• → Polish: diaspora
• → Portuguese: diáspora
• → Russian: диа́спора (diáspora)
  • → Kazakh: диаспора (diaspora)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: дијаспора
  • Latin script: dijaspora
• → Slovak: diaspóra
• → Slovene: diaspora
• → Spanish: diáspora
• → Swedish: diaspora
• → Turkish: diaspora
• → Ukrainian: діа́спора (diáspora)

Further reading

• “διασπορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διασπορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διασπορά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “διασπορά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• διασπορά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá).

Noun

διασπορά • (diasporá) f (uncountable)

1. dispersion
2. diaspora

Declension

Declension of διασπορά

	singular
nominative	διασπορά (diasporá)
genitive	διασποράς (diasporás)
accusative	διασπορά (diasporá)
vocative	διασπορά (diasporá)

Related terms

• διασπείρω (diaspeíro)
• διασπορά ψευδών ειδήσεων (diasporá psevdón eidíseon)

Further reading

• διασπορά, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language