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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From δικαιόω (dikaióō, “to set right, deem right”) + -ωμα (-ōma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.kǎi̯.ɔː.ma/ → /ðiˈcɛ.o.ma/ → /ðiˈce.o.ma/
Noun
δῐκαίωμα • (dikaíōma) n (genitive δῐκαιώματος); third declension
- an act by which wrong is set right
- a judgment, punishment, penalty
- a plea of right
- justification
- an ordinance, decree
- righteousness
Declension
Further reading
- δικαίωμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “δικαίωμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G1345 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δικαίωμα (dikaíōma), by surface analysis, δικαιώνω (dikaióno, “to justify”) + -ωμα (-oma). Actually a semantic loan from French droit.
Pronunciation
Noun
δικαίωμα • (dikaíoma) n (plural δικαιώματα)
- (law) right, entitlement
- ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα ― anthrópina dikaiómata ― human rights
- (law, in the plural) rights
Το Ευρωπαϊκό Δικαστήριο Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων- To Evropaïkó Dikastírio Anthropínon Dikaiomáton
- The European Court of Human Rights
- right, warrant, authority, power
Δεν είχες το δικαίωμα να πυροβολήσεις.- Den eíches to dikaíoma na pyrovolíseis.
- You didn't have the authority to shoot.
Declension
Coordinate terms
- see: δίκη f (díki, “trial”)
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