κλάσις

Ancient Greek

κλᾰ́ω (klắō, “break”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs)

κλᾰ́σῐς • (klắsĭs) f (genitive κλᾰ́σεως or κλᾰ́σιος); third declension

breaking, fracture
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 43e
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 2.14.4
  - Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.7.5
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 24:35
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 2:42
bending of the knee joint, refraction
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 882b33
- 150 CE – 250 CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias, in Mete. 143.9
- 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's Physics 785.25
- AD 254–270, Plotinus, Enneades 6.9.8
1. (of a bandage)
2. (of the labyrinth of the ear)
  - 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Of the Uses of the Different Parts of the Human Body 8.6
modulation of the voice
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.276
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.266

Third declension of ἡ κλᾰ́σῐς; τῆς κλᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κλᾰ́σῐς hē klắsĭs	τὼ κλᾰ́σει tṑ klắsei	αἱ κλᾰ́σεις hai klắseis
Genitive	τῆς κλᾰ́σεως tês klắseōs	τοῖν κλᾰσέοιν toîn klăséoin	τῶν κλᾰ́σεων tôn klắseōn
Dative	τῇ κλᾰ́σει tēî klắsei	τοῖν κλᾰσέοιν toîn klăséoin	ταῖς κλᾰ́σεσῐ / κλᾰ́σεσῐν taîs klắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κλᾰ́σῐν tḕn klắsĭn	τὼ κλᾰ́σει tṑ klắsei	τᾱ̀ς κλᾰ́σεις tā̀s klắseis
Vocative	κλᾰ́σῐ klắsĭ	κλᾰ́σει klắsei	κλᾰ́σεις klắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κλάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κλάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κλάσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2800 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible