κοινωνία

From κοινωνός (koinōnós, “companion, partner”) (from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

κοινωνίᾱ • (koinōníā) f (genitive κοινωνίᾱς); first declension

1. communion, association, partnership, fellowship
2. common gift, contribution, alms
3. sexual intercourse

• 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 1:9:

  πιστὸς ὁ Θεός, δι’ οὗ ἐκλήθητε εἰς κοινωνίαν τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν.

  pistòs ho Theós, di’ hoû eklḗthēte eis koinōnían toû huioû autoû Iēsoû Khristoû toû Kuríou hēmôn.

  • Translation by KJV

    God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

• 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:16:

  τὸ ποτήριον τῆς εὐλογίας ὃ εὐλογοῦμεν, οὐχὶ κοινωνία τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐστί; τὸν ἄρτον ὃν κλῶμεν, οὐχὶ κοινωνία τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐστίν;

  tò potḗrion tês eulogías hò eulogoûmen, oukhì koinōnía toû haímatos toû Khristoû estí? tòn árton hòn klômen, oukhì koinōnía toû sṓmatos toû Khristoû estín?

  • Translation by KJV

    The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

• 4th century BCE, Ἄμφις Amphis.20.3.:

  γυναικὸς λαμβάνειν κοινωνίαν;

  gunaikòs lambánein koinōnían?

  women having sexual intercourse;

• Greek: κοινωνία (koinonía)
• → English: koinonia
• → Indonesian: persekutuan (semantic loan)

• κοινωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κοινωνία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κοινωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2842 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.
  • affinity idem, page 16.
  • association idem, page 47.
  • brotherhood idem, page 101.
  • co-operation idem, page 140.
  • coalition idem, page 140.
  • collaboration idem, page 142.
  • communication idem, page 149.
  • communion idem, page 149.
  • community idem, page 149.
  • companionship idem, page 149.
  • company idem, page 150.
  • connection idem, page 161.
  • contact idem, page 166.
  • converse idem, page 173.
  • dealings idem, page 198.
  • fellow idem, page 314.
  • fraternity idem, page 343.
  • guild idem, page 378.
  • intercommunity idem, page 449.
  • intercourse idem, page 449.
  • participation idem, page 594.
  • partnership idem, page 595.
  • relation idem, page 689.
  • share idem, page 762.
  • social idem, page 790.
  • society idem, page 791.
  • talk idem, page 854.
  • union idem, page 922.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κοινωνίᾱ (koinōníā), from κοινωνός (koinōnós) +‎ -ία (-ía), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared, public”).

• IPA^(key): /ki.noˈni.a/
• Hyphenation: κοι‧νω‧νί‧α

κοινωνία • (koinonía) f (plural κοινωνίες)

1. community

   σοσιαλιστική κοινωνία ― sosialistikí koinonía ― socialist community

   κλειστή κοινωνία ― kleistí koinonía ― closed community

2. society, communion (a group of people with a shared culture)

   η κοινωνία της αφθονίας ― i koinonía tis afthonías ― the affluent society

3. (Christianity) communion

   Θεία Κοινωνία ― Theía Koinonía ― Holy Communion

• Θεία Κοινωνία (Theía Koinonía, “Holy Communion”)

• κοινωνώ (koinonó, “to take communion, to give communion”)
• κοινωνιολογία (koinoniología, “sociology”)

• κοινωνία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• κοινωνία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• G2842 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible