εἰσαγωγή

See also: εισαγωγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἰσ- (eis-, “into”) +‎ ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, “bringing, leading”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.sa.ɡɔː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/ → /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.sa.ɡɔː.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɡoˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.sa.ɣoˈʝi/

Noun

εἰσᾰγωγή • (eisăgōgḗ) f (genitive εἰσᾰγωγῆς); first declension

1. a bringing in
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.3.8
   • IGRom. 3.804
   • PSI 5.500
   1. an introduction (as of heirs by adoption or of children to a φρατρία)
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 10.9
      • IG 22.1237.108
   2. importation of goods etc.
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 847d
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1360a.14
      • SIG 278.11
   3. raising of taxes
      • PAmh. 2.31.6
2. (law) a bringing of causes into court
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 855d
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 4.12
3. an introduction to a subject, an elementary teaching
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 56.12
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Ammaeus 2.1
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.487
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.29.23
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 8.428
   1. an elementary treatise (as the title of a work by Chrysippus)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.43f
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Libr.Propr.Prooem.
4. a channel of entrance to a harbour
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.18
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Peripl.M.Rubr. 37
5. the office of an εἰσαγωγεύς
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον

Declension

First declension of ἡ εἰσᾰγωγή; τῆς εἰσᾰγωγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰσᾰγωγή hē eisăgōgḗ	τὼ εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ tṑ eisăgōgā́	αἱ εἰσᾰγωγαί hai eisăgōgaí
Genitive	τῆς εἰσᾰγωγῆς tês eisăgōgês	τοῖν εἰσᾰγωγαῖν toîn eisăgōgaîn	τῶν εἰσᾰγωγῶν tôn eisăgōgôn
Dative	τῇ εἰσᾰγωγῇ têi eisăgōgêi	τοῖν εἰσᾰγωγαῖν toîn eisăgōgaîn	ταῖς εἰσᾰγωγαῖς taîs eisăgōgaîs
Accusative	τὴν εἰσᾰγωγήν tḕn eisăgōgḗn	τὼ εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ tṑ eisăgōgā́	τᾱ̀ς εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ς tā̀s eisăgōgā́s
Vocative	εἰσᾰγωγή eisăgōgḗ	εἰσᾰγωγᾱ́ eisăgōgā́	εἰσᾰγωγαί eisăgōgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εισαγωγή (eisagogí)

References

• “εἰσᾰγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰσαγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰσαγωγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἰσαγωγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admission idem, page 12.
  • carrying idem, page 115.
  • importation idem, page 422.