κοινωνία
Greek
Etymology
Borrowed learnedly from Ancient Greek κοινωνίᾱ (koinōníā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.noˈni.a/
- Hyphenation: κοι‧νω‧νί‧α
Noun
κοινωνία • (koinonía) f (plural κοινωνίες)
- community
- σοσιαλιστική κοινωνία ― sosialistikí koinonía ― socialist community
- κλειστή κοινωνία ― kleistí koinonía ― closed community
- society, communion (a group of people with a shared culture)
- η κοινωνία της αφθονίας ― i koinonía tis afthonías ― the affluent society
- (Christianity) communion
- Θεία κοινωνία ― Theía koinonía ― Holy Communion
Declension
Related terms
- κοινωνώ (koinonó, “to take communion, to give communion”)
- κοινωνιολογία (koinoniología, “sociology”)
Further reading
- κοινωνία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- G2842 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κοινωνία - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
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