How did the Greeks understand the significance of οá½ÏƒÎ¯Î± before it became an expression dominated by the platonic and aristotelic thought? Is Heidegger correct to interpret this pre-philosophical comprehension as constant presentness (ständige Anwesenheit) or is such interpretation a characteristic distortion from the German thinker? Through the establishment of etymological and philological criteria and of the philosophical use of the word οá½ÏƒÎ¯Î±, it is aimed not only to clarify its daily use, that means, pre-philosophical, but also to prove the heideggerian interpretation. From the undertaken examination it resulted that the pre-philosophical comprehension of οá½ÏƒÎ¯Î± carries the meanings of “ownership”, “goods”, “residence”, “f...