κυβέρνησις
πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
English (LSJ)
Dor. κῠβέρν-ᾱσις, εως, ἡ,
A steering, pilotage, Pl.R.488b. 2 metaph., government, πολίων of cities, Pi.P.10.72 (pl.), cf. 1 Ep.Cor.12.28 (pl.); θεοῦ by a god, Plu.2.162a.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1522] ἡ, das Steuern, Plat. Rep. VI, 488 b u. Sp.; – auch übertr., das Lenken, Regieren; πολίων κυβερνάσεις Pind. P. 10, 112; Plut.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κῠβέρνησις: Δωρ. -ᾱσις, -εως, ἡ, τὸ κυβερνᾶν, ἐπὶ πλοίου, Πλάτ. Πολ. 488Β. 2) μεταφ., κυβέρνησις, διοίκησις, πολίων, πόλεων, Πινδ. Π. 10. 112· θεοῦ, ὑπὸ θεοῦ, Πλούτ. 2. 162Α.
French (Bailly abrégé)
εως (ἡ) :
action de diriger à l’aide d’un gouvernail.
Étymologie: κυβερνάω.
English (Strong)
from kubernao (of Latin origin, to steer); pilotage, i.e. (figuratively) directorship (in the church): government.
English (Thayer)
κυβερνήσεως, ἡ (κυβερνάω (Latin gubernare, to govern)), a governing, government: wise counsels (R. V. marginal reading); so Hesychius: κυβερνήσεις. προνοητικαι ἐπίστημαι καί φρονησεις; cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus in the Sept., under the word, and to the references below add Symm.); (Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, others).
Greek Monotonic
κῠβέρνησις: Δωρ. -ᾱσις, -εως, ἡ,
1. καθοδήγηση, εξουσίαση, πλοήγηση, σε Πλάτ.
2. μεταφ., διακυβέρνηση, σε Πίνδ.
Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)
κυβέρνησις -εως, ἡ [κυβερνάω] van schepen het sturen, navigeren; uitbr. het besturen.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
κῠβέρνησις: дор. κῠβέρνᾱσις, εως ἡ
1) управление кораблем, кораблевождение Plat.;
2) управление, заведование, руководство (πολίων Pind.; pl. NT).
