χήμωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χήμη (khḗmē, “clam, cockle”) + -ωσῐς (-ōsĭs, “state, condition”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛ̌ː.mɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰe̝.mo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/
Noun
χήμωσῐς • (khḗmōsĭs) f (genitive χημώσεως); third declension
- (pathology) an affection of the eyes, when the cornea swells like a cockle-shell so as to impede sight
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χήμωσῐς hē khḗmōsĭs |
τὼ χημώσει tṑ khēmṓsei |
αἱ χημώσεις hai khēmṓseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χημώσεως tês khēmṓseōs |
τοῖν χημωσέοιν toîn khēmōséoin |
τῶν χημώσεων tôn khēmṓseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χημώσει tēî khēmṓsei |
τοῖν χημωσέοιν toîn khēmōséoin |
ταῖς χημώσεσῐ / χημώσεσῐν taîs khēmṓsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χήμωσῐν tḕn khḗmōsĭn |
τὼ χημώσει tṑ khēmṓsei |
τᾱ̀ς χημώσεις tā̀s khēmṓseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χήμωσῐ khḗmōsĭ |
χημώσει khēmṓsei |
χημώσεις khēmṓseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “χήμωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χήμωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette