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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἰσ- (eis-, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ěː.so.dos/ → /ˈi.so.ðos/ → /ˈi.so.ðos/
Noun
εἴσοδος • (eísodos) f (genitive εἰσόδου); second declension
- way in, entrance, entry
- Antonym: ἔξοδος (éxodos)
- an act of going in, entrance
- entrance into the lists to contend in the games
- a right or privilege of entrance
- a visit
- that which comes in, income, revenue
Inflection
Descendants
- Greek: είσοδος f (eísodos, “way in”)
Further reading
- “εἴσοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἴσοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εἴσοδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εἴσοδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εἴσοδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- εἴσοδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1529 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- εἴσοδος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- access idem, page 5.
- admission idem, page 12.
- approach idem, page 37.
- audience idem, page 52.
- entrance idem, page 278.
- entry idem, page 278.
- gate idem, page 354.
- ingress idem, page 440.
- intrusion idem, page 455.
- mouth idem, page 544.
- opening idem, page 576.
- threshold idem, page 870.
- visit idem, page 954.
- way idem, page 968.