σχίσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skʰí.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈskʰi.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsçi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsçi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsçi.sis/
Noun
σχῐ́σῐς • (skhĭ́sĭs) f (genitive σχῐ́σεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σχῐ́σῐς hē skhĭ́sĭs |
τὼ σχῐ́σει tṑ skhĭ́sei |
αἱ σχῐ́σεις hai skhĭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σχῐ́σεως tês skhĭ́seōs |
τοῖν σχῐσέοιν toîn skhĭséoin |
τῶν σχῐ́σεων tôn skhĭ́seōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σχῐ́σει tēî skhĭ́sei |
τοῖν σχῐσέοιν toîn skhĭséoin |
ταῖς σχῐ́σεσῐ / σχῐ́σεσῐν taîs skhĭ́sesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σχῐ́σῐν tḕn skhĭ́sĭn |
τὼ σχῐ́σει tṑ skhĭ́sei |
τᾱ̀ς σχῐ́σεις tā̀s skhĭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σχῐ́σῐ skhĭ́sĭ |
σχῐ́σει skhĭ́sei |
σχῐ́σεις skhĭ́seis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: schisis
- → Russian: схи́зис (sxízis)
Further reading
- “σχίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σχίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.