ζέσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζέω (zéō, “I boil, I seethe”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdé.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
Noun
ζέσῐς • (zésĭs) f (genitive ζέσεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ζέσῐς hē zésĭs |
τὼ ζέσει tṑ zései |
αἱ ζέσεις hai zéseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ζέσεως tês zéseōs |
τοῖν ζεσέοιν toîn zeséoin |
τῶν ζέσεων tôn zéseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ζέσει tēî zései |
τοῖν ζεσέοιν toîn zeséoin |
ταῖς ζέσεσῐ / ζέσεσῐν taîs zésesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ζέσῐν tḕn zésĭn |
τὼ ζέσει tṑ zései |
τᾱ̀ς ζέσεις tā̀s zéseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζέσῐ zésĭ |
ζέσει zései |
ζέσεις zéseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ζέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζέσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette