Ancient Greek

Noun

δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς • ‎(diágnōsis) f ‎(genitive δῐᾰγνώσῐος or δῐᾰγνώσεως); third declension

1. distinguishing
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.50
2. means of distinguishing or discerning
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 926
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.128
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 2.9
   1. (medicine, of medical diagnosis)
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, VC 10
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.766
   2. power of discernment
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 696
3. resolving, deciding
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 6.18
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.7
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 1.34
   • Metrodorus, Fragments 27
   • Module:Quotations:218: attempt to compare number with nil
   1. (law, Christianity) examination, opinion, decision
      • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 25.21

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: διάγνωση ‎(diágnosi)
• Hungarian: diagnózis
• Latin: diagnōsis
  • English: diagnosis
  • Norman: dgiag'nose
• Russian: диагноз ‎(diagnoz)

References

• διάγνωσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διάγνωσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «διάγνωσις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «διάγνωσις» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1233”, 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.
  • adjudication idem, page 12.
  • award idem, page 56.
  • decision idem, page 201.
  • determination idem, page 219.
  • discernment idem, page 229.
  • discrimination idem, page 232.
  • distinction idem, page 241.
  • judgment idem, page 465.
  • sentence idem, page 753.