Ancient Greek

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

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

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

Noun

ἡγεμονίᾱ • ‎(hēgemoníā) f ‎(genitive ἡγεμονίας); first declension

1. the act of leading
2. supreme power, supremacy, command
3. office of governor, reign
4. a division of the army under its officer
5. chief thing, principal part

Inflection

Related terms

• ἡγεμών ‎(hēgemṓn)
• ἡγεμονεύω ‎(hēgemoneúō)

Descendants

• English: hegemony
• Russian: гегемо́ния f ‎(gegemónija)

References

• ἡγεμονία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἡγεμονία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἡγεμονία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2231”, 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.
  • ascendency idem, page 43.
  • chieftainship idem, page 129.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • headship idem, page 391.
  • leadership idem, page 482.
  • lordship idem, page 500.
  • overlordship idem, page 585.
  • paramountcy idem, page 592.
  • predominance idem, page 633.
  • primacy idem, page 640.
  • supremacy idem, page 842.
  • suzerainty idem, page 846.