ἸΔΙΩΜΑΤΙΚΟΝ, ἰδιωματικον
IDIŌMATIKON, idiōmatikon
Sounds Like: ee-dee-oh-mah-tee-KON
Translations: idiomatic, peculiar, characteristic, proper, a peculiar thing
From the root: ἸΔΙΩΜΑ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is peculiar, characteristic, or proper to a specific person, group, or language. It refers to something that is distinctive or unique to a particular idiom or way of speaking. It can be used to describe a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of its words.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:42
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΔΙΩΜΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἸΔΙΩΜΑΤΟΣ — of idiom, of peculiarity, of a peculiar usage, of a special language, of a dialect
- ἸΔΙΩΜΑΤΩΝ — of idioms, of peculiarities, of languages, of dialects
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