γέννησις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From γεννᾰ́ω (gennắō, “I beget”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, verbal noun suffix). Compare simple γένεσις (génesis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡén.nɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡen.ne̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝen.ni.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝen.ni.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ni.sis/
Noun
γέννησῐς • (génnēsĭs) f (genitive γεννήσεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ γέννησῐς hē génnēsĭs |
τὼ γεννήσει tṑ gennḗsei |
αἱ γεννήσεις hai gennḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς γεννήσεως tês gennḗseōs |
τοῖν γεννησέοιν toîn gennēséoin |
τῶν γεννήσεων tôn gennḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ γεννήσει tēî gennḗsei |
τοῖν γεννησέοιν toîn gennēséoin |
ταῖς γεννήσεσῐ / γεννήσεσῐν taîs gennḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν γέννησῐν tḕn génnēsĭn |
τὼ γεννήσει tṑ gennḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς γεννήσεις tā̀s gennḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γέννησῐ génnēsĭ |
γεννήσει gennḗsei |
γεννήσεις gennḗseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀναγέννησις (anagénnēsis)
- ἀπογέννησις (apogénnēsis)
- ἐγγέννησις (engénnēsis)
- ἐπιγέννησις (epigénnēsis)
- προσγέννησις (prosgénnēsis)
Related terms
- γένεσις (génesis)
Further reading
- “γέννησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γέννησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γέννησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γέννησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G1083 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- begetting idem, page 70.
- breeding idem, page 97.
- generation idem, page 356.
- procreation idem, page 644.
- production idem, page 645.
- propagation idem, page 653.
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek γέννησις (génnēsis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ni.sis/
- Hyphenation: γέν‧νη‧σις
Noun
γέννησις • (génnisis) f (plural γεννήσεις)
- Katharevousa form of γέννηση (génnisi)
Declension
- As in Ancient Greek without the dual number