Ancient Greek

Noun

εἰσᾰγωγή • ‎(eisagōgḗ) f ‎(genitive εἰσᾰγωγῆς); first declension

1. a bringing in
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.3.8
   • IGRom. 3.804
   • PSI 5.500
   1. an introduction (as of heirs by adoption or of children to a φρατρία)
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 10.9
      • IG 22.1237.108
   2. importation of goods etc.
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 847.d
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1360a.14
      • SIG 278.11
   3. raising of taxes
      • PAmh. 2.31.6
2. (law) a bringing of causes into court
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 855.d
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 4.12
3. an introduction to a subject, an elementary teaching
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 56.12
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Amm. 2.1
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.487
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.29.23
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 8.428
   1. an elementary treatise (as the title of a work by Chrysippus)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.43f
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Libr.Propr.Prooem.
4. a channel of entrance to a harbour
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.18
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Peripl.M.Rubr. 37
5. the office of an εἰσαγωγεύς
   • AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: εισαγωγή ‎(eisagogí)

References

• εἰσᾰγωγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• εἰσαγωγή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «εἰσαγωγή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «εἰσαγωγή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admission idem, page 12.
  • carrying idem, page 115.
  • importation idem, page 422.