Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἔσοδος ‎(ésodos)

Noun

εἴσοδος • ‎(eísodos) m ‎(genitive εἰσόδου); second declension

1. way in, entrance, entry
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.90
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 104
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.176
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 326
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 296
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 63.2
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.116
2. an act of going in, entrance
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.7
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 30
   1. entrance into the lists to contend in the games
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 6.50
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 45.E
   2. a right or privilege of entrance
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.118
   3. a visit
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 930
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 952
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 20
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 16.523
3. that which comes in, income, revenue
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.13.1

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: είσοδος f ‎(eísodos, “way in”)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G1529”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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 575.
  • threshold idem, page 870.
  • visit idem, page 954.
  • way idem, page 968.