Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πολιτηίη ‎(politēíē) (Ionic)

Noun

πολῑτείᾱ • ‎(polīteíā) f ‎(genitive πολιτείας); first declension

1. the relation in which a citizen stands to the state, the condition and rights of a citizen, citizenship
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.34
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.6
   1. the life of a citizen, one's daily life
      • Andocides, Collected Works 21.7
   2. the body of citizens
      • Plato, The Republic 4.4.31
2. the life and business of a statesman, government, administration
   • Aristophanes, The Knights 219
3. civil polity, the condition or constitution of a state
   • Antiphanes 120.40
   1. a well-ordered republican government, a commonwealth
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.10.1
   2. a free community, republic
      • Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 1.1

Inflection

References

• πολιτεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολιτεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πολιτεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4174”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • citizenship idem, page 133.
  • city idem, page 133.
  • commonwealth idem, page 149.
  • community idem, page 149.
  • constitution idem, page 164.
  • constitutional idem, page 165.
  • government idem, page 368.
  • policy idem, page 624.
  • polity idem, page 625.
  • public idem, page 655.
  • republic idem, page 699.
  • state idem, page 812.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολιτεία ‎(politeía).

Noun

πολιτεία • ‎(politeía) f ‎(plural πολιτείες)

1. state

   Οι 50 πολιτείες των ΗΠΑ

   The 50 states of the USA

2. city, place

   Η χαμένη πολιτεία του Μάτσου Πίτσου

   The lost city of Machu Picchu.

   Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν μια πολιτεία παράξενη, καμωμένη πάνω σ'ένα δέντρο

   Once upon a time there was a strange city, built on a tree.

3. government, republic
4. body politic, polity

Declension

Synonyms

• (city): πόλη f ‎(póli)
• (large city): άστυ n ‎(ásty)

Related terms

• see: πόλη f ‎(póli, “town, city”)