ἅλωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai) + -ωσις (-ōsis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /há.lɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.lo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
Noun
ἅλωσῐς • (hálōsĭs) f (genitive ἁλώσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἅλωσῐς hē hálōsĭs |
τὼ ἁλώσει tṑ halṓsei |
αἱ ἁλώσεις hai halṓseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἁλώσεως tês halṓseōs |
τοῖν ἁλωσέοιν toîn halōséoin |
τῶν ἁλώσεων tôn halṓseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἁλώσει tēî halṓsei |
τοῖν ἁλωσέοιν toîn halōséoin |
ταῖς ἁλώσεσῐ / ἁλώσεσῐν taîs halṓsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἅλωσῐν tḕn hálōsĭn |
τὼ ἁλώσει tṑ halṓsei |
τᾱ̀ς ἁλώσεις tā̀s halṓseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἅλωσῐ hálōsĭ |
ἁλώσει halṓsei |
ἁλώσεις halṓseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άλωση (álosi)
Further reading
- ἅλωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅλωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἅλωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἅλωσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G259 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.