ἔκδοσις

• ἔσδοσις (ésdosis) — Arcadocypriot

ἐκδῐ́δωμῐ (ekdĭ́dōmĭ, “give up, surrender”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) +‎ δῐ́δωμῐ (dĭ́dōmĭ, “give”).

ἔκδοσῐς • (ékdosĭs) f (genitive ἐκδόσῐος or ἐκδόσεως); third declension

1. giving up, surrendering
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.159
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 310e
   1. giving in marriage, dowering
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 924d
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 13352
   2. letting, hiring, farming out
      • PPetr. 3p.148
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.17.4
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cato the Elder 19
   3. lending money on ships or exported goods, bottomry
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 27.11
        , 29.35
   4. publication of a book
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Ammaeus 1.10
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Tact.Praef. 4
      1. a publication, treatise
         • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 3.4
           , 313.6
         • c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, De vita Pythagorica 23.104
      2. edition of an author’s work
         • Hephaestio, Poëm. p.74C.
         • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 89.22
      3. translation
         • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.2.4
2. bursting forth
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Imagines 2.17
   1. delivery
      • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.71
   2. motions of the bowels
      • Archig. ap. Aët. 6.27

• Greek: έκδοση (ékdosi)

• “ἔκδοσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔκδοσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔκδοσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔκδοσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • betrothal idem, page 77.
  • bottomry idem, page 90.
  • espousal idem, page 282.
  • portioning idem, page 627.