κατήχησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κατηχέω (katēkhéō) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tɛ̌ː.kʰɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈte̝.kʰe̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/
Noun
κᾰτήχησῐς • (kătḗkhēsĭs) f (genitive κᾰτηχήσεως); third declension
- instruction, especially oral
- communication
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰτήχησῐς hē kătḗkhēsĭs |
τὼ κᾰτηχήσει tṑ kătēkhḗsei |
αἱ κᾰτηχήσεις hai kătēkhḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰτηχήσεως tês kătēkhḗseōs |
τοῖν κᾰτηχησέοιν toîn kătēkhēséoin |
τῶν κᾰτηχήσεων tôn kătēkhḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰτηχήσει tēî kătēkhḗsei |
τοῖν κᾰτηχησέοιν toîn kătēkhēséoin |
ταῖς κᾰτηχήσεσῐ / κᾰτηχήσεσῐν taîs kătēkhḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰτήχησῐν tḕn kătḗkhēsĭn |
τὼ κᾰτηχήσει tṑ kătēkhḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰτηχήσεις tā̀s kătēkhḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰτήχησῐ kătḗkhēsĭ |
κᾰτηχήσει kătēkhḗsei |
κᾰτηχήσεις kătēkhḗseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κατηχίζω (katēkhízō)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Belarusian: катэхі́зіс (katexízis)
- → Latin: catēchēsis (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: катихи́зис (katihízis)
- → Romanian: catihis
- → Russian: катехи́зис (katexízis)
- → Ukrainian: катехі́зис (katexízys)
Further reading
- κατήχησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κατήχησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κατήχησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press