τμῆσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tmɛ̂ː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtme̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
Noun
τμῆσῐς • (tmêsĭs) f (genitive τμήσεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ τμῆσῐς hē tmêsĭs |
τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei |
αἱ τμήσεις hai tmḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς τμήσεως tês tmḗseōs |
τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin |
τῶν τμήσεων tôn tmḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ τμήσει tēî tmḗsei |
τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin |
ταῖς τμήσεσῐ / τμήσεσῐν taîs tmḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν τμῆσῐν tḕn tmêsĭn |
τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς τμήσεις tā̀s tmḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τμῆσῐ tmêsĭ |
τμήσει tmḗsei |
τμήσεις tmḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Bulgarian: тмезис (tmezis)
- → Finnish: tmeesi
- Greek: τμήση (tmísi)
- → Latin: tmēsis
- → Polish: tmeza
- → Russian: тме́зис (tmézis)
- → Serbo-Croatian: тмеза / tmeza
References
- “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τμῆσις 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.
- devastation idem, page 220.
- pillage idem, page 613.
- ravage idem, page 673.
- wasting idem, page 965.