πέψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέσσω (péssō, “to ripen; cook; digest”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πέψῐς • (pépsĭs) f (genitive πέψεως); third declension

  1. softening, ripening, or changing by means of heat
  2. (in general) cooking of food
  3. (of wine) fermentation
  4. (medicine) digestion of food
  5. concoction of acrid humors
  6. concoction, as a function of the animal organs

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πέψῐς; τῆς πέψεως (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ πέψῐς
hē pépsĭs 		τὼ πέψει
tṑ pépsei 		αἱ πέψεις
hai pépseis
Genitive τῆς πέψεως
tês pépseōs 		τοῖν πεψέοιν
toîn pepséoin 		τῶν πέψεων
tôn pépseōn
Dative τῇ πέψει
tēî pépsei 		τοῖν πεψέοιν
toîn pepséoin 		ταῖς πέψεσῐ / πέψεσῐν
taîs pépsesĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν πέψῐν
tḕn pépsĭn 		τὼ πέψει
tṑ pépsei 		τᾱ̀ς πέψεις
tā̀s pépseis
Vocative πέψῐ
pépsĭ 		πέψει
pépsei 		πέψεις
pépseis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Pepsis
  • → Italian: pepsi

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πέσσω (> DER > 2. πέψις)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1180-1

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