εἴσοδος

See also: είσοδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἔσοδος (ésodos)

Etymology

From εἰσ- (eis-, “into”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ěː.so.dos/ → /ˈi.so.ðos/ → /ˈi.so.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ěː.so.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.so.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.so.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.so.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.so.ðos/

Noun

εἴσοδος • (eísodos) f (genitive εἰσόδου); second declension

1. way in, entrance, entry

   Antonym: ἔξοδος (éxodos)

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.90
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 104
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.176
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 326
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 296
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 63.2
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.116
2. an act of going in, entrance
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.7
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 30
   1. entrance into the lists to contend in the games
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 6.50
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 45E
   2. a right or privilege of entrance
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.118
   3. a visit
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 930
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 952
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 20
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 16.523
3. that which comes in, income, revenue
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.13.1

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ εἴσοδος; τῆς εἰσόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἴσοδος hē eísodos	τὼ εἰσόδω tṑ eisódō	αἱ εἴσοδοι hai eísodoi
Genitive	τῆς εἰσόδου tês eisódou	τοῖν εἰσόδοιν toîn eisódoin	τῶν εἰσόδων tôn eisódōn
Dative	τῇ εἰσόδῳ tēî eisódōi	τοῖν εἰσόδοιν toîn eisódoin	ταῖς εἰσόδοις taîs eisódois
Accusative	τὴν εἴσοδον tḕn eísodon	τὼ εἰσόδω tṑ eisódō	τᾱ̀ς εἰσόδους tā̀s eisódous
Vocative	εἴσοδε eísode	εἰσόδω eisódō	εἴσοδοι eísodoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: είσοδος f (eísodos, “way in”)

Further reading

• “εἴσοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἴσοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εἴσοδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εἴσοδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἴσοδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• εἴσοδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1529 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• εἴσοδος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • access idem, page 5.
  • admission idem, page 12.
  • approach idem, page 37.
  • audience idem, page 52.
  • entrance idem, page 278.
  • entry idem, page 278.
  • gate idem, page 354.
  • ingress idem, page 440.
  • intrusion idem, page 455.
  • mouth idem, page 544.
  • opening idem, page 576.
  • threshold idem, page 870.
  • visit idem, page 954.
  • way idem, page 968.