δημόσιος

• δᾱμόσῐος (dāmósios) — Doric
• δημόρῐος (dēmórios) — Euboean

From *δημότ-ιος (-ios) with assibilation, from δημότης (dēmótēs, “one of the people; fellow citizen”), from δῆμο(ς) (dêmo(s)) + -της (-tēs)(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

δημόσῐος • (dēmósios) m (feminine δημοσῐ́ᾱ or δημοσῐ́η, neuter δημόσῐον); first/second declension

1. belonging to the state or people, public
2. one of the class of Demosioi, a publicly-owned slave

• δημόσῐον (dēmósion)
• δᾱμοσῐ́ᾱ (dāmosíā)
• δημοσῐ́ᾳ (dēmosíāi)

• “δημόσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δημόσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δημόσιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δημόσῐος (dēmósios). The sense as in the neuter τὸ (tò) δημόσιον (dēmósion, “the state”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈmo.si.os/
• Hyphenation: δη‧μό‧σι‧ος

δημόσιος • (dimósios) m (feminine δημόσια, neuter δημόσιο)

1. public

   δημόσια υγεία ― dimósia ygeía ― public health

   δημόσιο συμφέρον ― dimósio symféron ― public interest

   δημόσια ζωή ― dimósia zoḯ ― public life

   δημόσια εικόνα ― dimósia eikóna ― public image

   δημόσια εμφάνιση ― dimósia emfánisi ― public appearance

• δημόσιες σχέσεις f pl (dimósies schéseis, “public relations”)

δημοσιο- (dimosio-) compounds like

• and see: δήμος m (dímos)