ζήτησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζητέω (zētéō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɛ̌ː.tɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈze̝.te̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/
Noun
ζήτησῐς • (zḗtēsĭs) f (genitive ζητήσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ζήτησῐς hē zḗtēsĭs |
τὼ ζητήσει tṑ zētḗsei |
αἱ ζητήσεις hai zētḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ζητήσεως tês zētḗseōs |
τοῖν ζητησέοιν toîn zētēséoin |
τῶν ζητήσεων tôn zētḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ζητήσει tēî zētḗsei |
τοῖν ζητησέοιν toîn zētēséoin |
ταῖς ζητήσεσῐ / ζητήσεσῐν taîs zētḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ζήτησῐν tḕn zḗtēsĭn |
τὼ ζητήσει tṑ zētḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς ζητήσεις tā̀s zētḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζήτησῐ zḗtēsĭ |
ζητήσει zētḗsei |
ζητήσεις zētḗseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ζήτησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G2214 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.
- chase idem, page 126.
- examination idem, page 287.
- hunt idem, page 410.
- inquiry idem, page 443.
- investigation idem, page 457.
- quest idem, page 665.
- research idem, page 701.
- scrutiny idem, page 743.
- search idem, page 746.
- ζήτησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011