Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiðaskaía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiðaskaía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiðaskaía/

Noun

διδασκαλία • ‎(didaskalía) f ‎(genitive διδασκαλίας); first declension

1. teaching, instruction, education
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.102
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Euenus, Collected Works 1
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, The Law 2
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.24
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493.B
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.42
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.87
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1103.A.15
2. preparation, rehearsing
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 501.E
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 147.5
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1096.A
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.839.D
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 8
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
   1. Catalogues of the Dramas of Aristotle
      • 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 5.26
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1155

Inflection

References

• διδασκαλία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διδασκαλία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «διδασκαλία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «διδασκαλία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• διδασκαλία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1319”, 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.
  • instruction idem, page 447.
  • lesson idem, page 485.
  • moral idem, page 540.
  • teaching idem, page 857.