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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *hwédios, from Proto-Indo-European *swéd-yo-s, from *swé (“self”). Equivalent to ἕ (hé) + -ῐος (-ios).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /í.di.os/ → /ˈi.ði.os/ → /ˈi.ði.os/
Adjective
ῐ̓́δῐος • (ídios) m (feminine ῐ̓δῐ́ᾱ, neuter ῐ̓́δῐον); first/second declension
- pertaining to self, that is, one's own
- private (as opposed to public)
- related to
- separate, distinct
- peculiar, specific, appropriate
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ἴδιος of 577-578
Further reading
- “ἴδιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴδιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἴδιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἴδιος 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
- ἴδιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2398 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.
- distinctive idem, page 241.
- domestic idem, page 246.
- exclusive idem, page 289.
- independent idem, page 432.
- individual idem, page 434.
- own idem, page 587.
- particular idem, page 594.
- peculiar idem, page 601.
- private idem, page 642.
- selfish idem, page 751.
- separate idem, page 754.
- special idem, page 799.
- unattached idem, page 907.
- unofficial idem, page 926.