ἰδέα

See also: ιδέα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εἰδέα (eidéa) (Koine)
• ἰδέη (idéē) (Ionian)

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Hellenic *widéhā, from Proto-Indo-European *widéseh₂, feminine derivation from *wéydos (whence εἶδος (eîdos)), from *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.dé.aː/ → /iˈðe.a/ → /iˈðe.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.dé.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈde.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈðe.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈðe.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈðe.a/

Noun

ἰδέᾱ • (idéā) f (genitive ἰδέᾱς); first declension

1. form, shape
2. look, appearance, semblance
3. type, sort, class
4. style
5. notion, idea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἰδέᾱ; τῆς ἰδέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰδέᾱ hē idéā	τὼ ἰδέᾱ tṑ idéā	αἱ ἰδέαι hai idéai
Genitive	τῆς ἰδέᾱς tês idéās	τοῖν ἰδέαιν toîn idéain	τῶν ἰδεῶν tôn ideôn
Dative	τῇ ἰδέᾳ têi idéāi	τοῖν ἰδέαιν toîn idéain	ταῖς ἰδέαις taîs idéais
Accusative	τὴν ἰδέᾱν tḕn idéān	τὼ ἰδέᾱ tṑ idéā	τᾱ̀ς ἰδέᾱς tā̀s idéās
Vocative	ἰδέᾱ idéā	ἰδέᾱ idéā	ἰδέαι idéai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ιδέα (idéa)
• → Latin: idea (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: иде́я (idéja)
  • → Kazakh: идея (ideä)

Further reading

• “ἰδέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰδέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰδέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ἰδέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2397 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.
  • abstract idem, page 4.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • archetype idem, page 38.
  • aspect idem, page 44.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • feature idem, page 313.
  • figure idem, page 319.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • idea idem, page 413.
  • image idem, page 416.
  • kind idem, page 469.
  • manner idem, page 512.
  • pattern idem, page 599.
  • personal idem, page 608.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • sort idem, page 795.
  • stature idem, page 813.
  • type idem, page 904.
  • variety idem, page 944.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1127