εἰσαγωγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἰσ- (eis-, into) + ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, bringing, leading).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

εἰσᾰγωγή (eisagōgḗ) f (genitive εἰσᾰγωγῆς); first declension

  1. a bringing in
    1. an introduction (as of heirs by adoption or of children to a φρατρία)
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 10.9
      • IG 22.1237.108
    2. importation of goods etc.
    3. raising of taxes
      • PAmh. 2.31.6
  2. (law) a bringing of causes into court
  3. an introduction to a subject, an elementary teaching
    1. an elementary treatise (as the title of a work by Chrysippus)
  4. a channel of entrance to a harbour
  5. the office of an εἰσαγωγεύς
    • AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον

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