koinon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An association or federation of distinct city-states with shared political institutions and citizenship.
Example Sentences
- "Greek koina have their own chronological and local particularities, and in spite of the existence of certain analogies, these cannot be followed absolutely or be considered valid in all cases."
- "The Cretan Koinon as it is considered in the preceding chapters was similar in some respects to other Greek koina."
- "Other decrees relating to koinons give them security from taxes or from being drafted for military service in foreign states. The koinons were associations of various kinds, groups of worshippers, guilds of craftsmen, federations of states, groups of magistrates. Koinons of Asclepiasts, worshippers of Asclepius, functioned and left monuments in Athens, Colyphon, and elsewhere."
- "Apart from these village koinons, there were two large koinons in the Karian history that had a national standing."
- "After their overwhelming victory against the Spartans at Leuktra, the Boiotians likewise found ritual action a powerful means of undergirding the new and hard-won but still compromised participation of the entire region in the koinon."
- "The cases of the Ionian and Euboian koina serve to further underline how misleading these mainland Greek koina can be as models for reconstructing the institutional structures of koina in the rest of the Greek world."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κοινόν (koinón).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: κοινόν