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ἰδί-ωμα [ι^δι^], ατος, τό, （ἰδιόω)
A.peculiarity, specific property, unique feature, Epicur.Ep.1p.25U., Stoic.2.25, etc.; τὰ τῶν χρωμάτων ἰ. Epicur.Ep.2p.51U.; “τῆς πολιτείας” Plb.2.38.10; “τοῦ νόμου” BGU12.18 (ii A.D.); “τὸ καθ᾽ αὑτὸν ἰ. τηρεῖν” Plb.2.59.2; τὰ περὶ τὴν χώραν, περὶ αὐτοὺς ἰ., Id.2.14.3, 6.3.3; τὸ ἐξαίρετόν τινος ἰ. A.D.Synt.15.19; ἀγαθότητος ἰ. Procl.Inst.133; “ὕλης” Id.Theol.Plat.5.35; property, φαρμάκου Heras ap.Gal.13.785, cf. Dsc.1.71; of the properties of numbers, Theol.Ar.5,al.; “τὸ ἰ. τοῦ ἑνός” Dam.Pr.5: special subject, “τῆς πραγματείας” Sor.1.126.
II. peculiarity of style, D.H.Amm.2tit., al.
2. idiom, “ἰ. Ὁμηρικόν” A.D.Synt.157.9.
3. style, παιανικὸν ἰ. Ath.15.696e.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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