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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛː.ɡe.mo.ní.aː/ → /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/ → /i.ʝe.moˈni.a/
Noun
ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱ • (hēgemoníā) f (genitive ἡγεμονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- the act of leading
- supreme power, supremacy, command
- office of governor, reign
- a division of the army under its officer
- chief thing, principal part
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἡγεμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἡγεμονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἡγεμονία 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
- G2231 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.
- ascendency idem, page 43.
- chieftainship idem, page 129.
- command idem, page 146.
- direction idem, page 226.
- head idem, page 389.
- headship idem, page 391.
- leadership idem, page 482.
- lordship idem, page 500.
- overlordship idem, page 585.
- paramountcy idem, page 592.
- predominance idem, page 634.
- primacy idem, page 640.
- supremacy idem, page 842.
- suzerainty idem, page 846.