διδασκαλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διδάσκαλος (didáskalos, “teacher”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.das.ka.lí.aː/ → /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/ → /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.das.ka.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.das.kaˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.ðas.kaˈli.a/

Noun

δῐδασκᾰλίᾱ • (dĭdaskălíā) f (genitive δῐδασκᾰλίᾱς); first declension

1. teaching, instruction, education
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.102
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Euenus, Collected Works 1
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, The Law 2
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.24
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493B
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.42
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.87
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1103A.15
2. preparation, rehearsing
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 501E
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 147.5
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1096A
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.839D
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 8
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
   1. Catalogues of the Dramas of Aristotle
      • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 5.26
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1155

Inflection

First declension of ἡ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ hē dĭdăskălĭ́ā	τὼ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭdăskălĭ́ā	αἱ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́αι hai dĭdăskălĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱς tês dĭdăskălĭ́ās	τοῖν δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́αιν toîn dĭdăskălĭ́ain	τῶν δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐῶν tôn dĭdăskălĭôn
Dative	τῇ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾳ têi dĭdăskălĭ́āi	τοῖν δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́αιν toîn dĭdăskălĭ́ain	ταῖς δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́αις taîs dĭdăskălĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱν tḕn dĭdăskălĭ́ān	τὼ δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭdăskălĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s dĭdăskălĭ́ās
Vocative	δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ dĭdăskălĭ́ā	δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́ᾱ dĭdăskălĭ́ā	δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐ́αι dĭdăskălĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δῐδᾰσκᾰλῐκός (dĭdăskălĭkós)

Descendants

• → French: didascalie
• → Italian: didascalia

Further reading

• “διδασκαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διδασκαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διδασκαλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διδασκαλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “διδασκαλία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1319 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • instruction idem, page 447.
  • lesson idem, page 485.
  • moral idem, page 540.
  • teaching idem, page 859.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διδασκαλία (didaskalía, “teaching”).

Noun

διδασκαλία • (didaskalía) f (plural διδασκαλίες)

1. teaching, tuition, instruction
2. (by extension) doctrine, teaching

Declension

Declension of διδασκαλία

	singular	plural
nominative	διδασκαλία (didaskalía)	διδασκαλίες (didaskalíes)
genitive	διδασκαλίας (didaskalías)	διδασκαλιών (didaskalión)
accusative	διδασκαλία (didaskalía)	διδασκαλίες (didaskalíes)
vocative	διδασκαλία (didaskalía)	διδασκαλίες (didaskalíes)

Related terms

• αλληλοδιδασκαλία f (allilodidaskalía, “mutual instruction”)
• and see: διδάσκω (didásko, “to teach”)

Further reading

• διδασκαλία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el