πολιτεία

• πολῑτηίη (polītēíē) – Ionic

From πολῑ́της (polī́tēs, “citizen”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun–forming suffix).

πολῑτείᾱ • (polīteíā) f (genitive πολιτείᾱς); first declension

(Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. the relation in which a citizen stands to the state, the condition and rights of a citizen, citizenship
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.34
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.6
   1. the life of a citizen, one's daily life
      • Andocides, Collected Works 21.7
   2. the body of citizens
      • Plato, The Republic 4.4.31
2. the life and business of a statesman, government, administration
   • Aristophanes, The Knights 219
3. civil polity, the condition or constitution of a state
   • Antiphanes 120.40
   1. a well-ordered republican government, a commonwealth
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.10.1
   2. a free community, republic
      • Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 1.1

• → English: politeia
• Greek: πολιτεία (politeía)
• → Latin: polītīa (see there for further descendants)

• πολιτεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολιτεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πολιτεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4174 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.
  • citizenship idem, page 133.
  • city idem, page 133.
  • commonwealth idem, page 149.
  • community idem, page 149.
  • constitution idem, page 164.
  • constitutional idem, page 165.
  • government idem, page 368.
  • policy idem, page 624.
  • polity idem, page 625.
  • public idem, page 655.
  • republic idem, page 699.
  • state idem, page 812.

From Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).

πολιτεία • (politeía) f (plural πολιτείες)

1. state

   οι 50 πολιτείες των ΗΠΑ ― oi 50 politeíes ton IPA ― the 50 states of the USA

2. city, place

   η χαμένη πολιτεία του Μάτσου Πίτσου

   i chaméni politeía tou Mátsou Pítsou

   the lost city of Machu Picchu

   Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν μια πολιτεία παράξενη, καμωμένη πάνω σ'ένα δέντρο

   Mia forá ki énan kairó ítan mia politeía paráxeni, kamoméni páno s'éna déntro

   Once upon a time there was a strange city, built on a tree

3. government, republic
4. body politic, polity

• (city): πόλη f (póli)
• (large city): άστυ n (ásty)
• (state): επικράτεια f (epikráteia)

• see: πόλη f (póli, “town, city”)