ἰδιώτης

See also: ιδιώτης

Ancient Greek

From ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, private”) +‎ -ώτης (-ṓtēs).

ῐ̓δῐώτης • (idiṓtēs) m (genitive ῐ̓δῐώτου); first declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)

a private person, one not engaged in public affairs
1. a private soldier, as opposed to a general
(adjectival use) private, homely
commoner, plebeian
uneducated person, layman, amateur
one who is not in the know, an outsider
an ignorant or illiterate person
one who is awkward, clumsy
(in the plural) one's countrymen

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̓δῐώτης ho idiṓtēs	τὼ ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ tṑ idiṓtā	οἱ ῐ̓δῐῶται hoi idiôtai
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓δῐώτου toû idiṓtou	τοῖν ῐ̓δῐώταιν toîn idiṓtain	τῶν ῐ̓δῐωτῶν tôn idiōtôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓δῐώτῃ tôi idiṓtēi	τοῖν ῐ̓δῐώταιν toîn idiṓtain	τοῖς ῐ̓δῐώταις toîs idiṓtais
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̓δῐώτην tòn idiṓtēn	τὼ ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ tṑ idiṓtā	τοὺς ῐ̓δῐώτᾱς toùs idiṓtās
Vocative	ῐ̓δῐῶτᾰ idiôta	ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ idiṓtā	ῐ̓δῐῶται idiôtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̓δῐώτης ho idiṓtēs	τὼ ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ tṑ idiṓtā	οἱ ῐ̓δῐῶται hoi idiôtai
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓δῐώτεω / ῐ̓δῐώτω toû idiṓteō / idiṓtō	τοῖν ῐ̓δῐώταιν toîn idiṓtain	τῶν ῐ̓δῐωτέων / ῐ̓δῐωτῶν tôn idiōtéōn / idiōtôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓δῐώτῃ tôi idiṓtēi	τοῖν ῐ̓δῐώταιν toîn idiṓtain	τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν ῐ̓δῐώτῃσῐ / ῐ̓δῐώτῃσῐν toîsi(n) idiṓtēisi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̓δῐώτην tòn idiṓtēn	τὼ ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ tṑ idiṓtā	τοὺς ῐ̓δῐώτᾱς toùs idiṓtās
Vocative	ῐ̓δῐῶτᾰ idiôta	ῐ̓δῐώτᾱ idiṓtā	ῐ̓δῐῶται idiôtai
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“ἰδιώτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἰδιώτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἰδιώτης 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
G2399 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.
- amateur idem, page 26.
- dabbler idem, page 193.
- dilettante idem, page 224.
- individual idem, page 434.
- layman idem, page 481.
- person idem, page 608.
- private idem, page 642.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN