ἐξέτασις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξετᾰ́ζω (exetắzō, “to examine, scrutinize, review”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ek.sé.ta.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ekˈse.ta.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ekˈse.ta.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ekˈse.ta.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ekˈse.ta.sis/
Noun
ἐξέτᾰσῐς • (exétăsĭs) f (genitive ἐξετᾰ́σεως); third declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)
- close examination, scrutiny, test, inquiry
- military inspection or review
- arrangement, order
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐξέτᾰσῐς hē exétăsĭs |
τὼ ἐξετᾰ́σει tṑ exetắsei |
αἱ ἐξετᾰ́σεις hai exetắseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐξετᾰ́σεως tês exetắseōs |
τοῖν ἐξετᾰσέοιν toîn exetăséoin |
τῶν ἐξετᾰ́σεων tôn exetắseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐξετᾰ́σει tēî exetắsei |
τοῖν ἐξετᾰσέοιν toîn exetăséoin |
ταῖς ἐξετᾰ́σεσῐ / ἐξετᾰ́σεσῐν taîs exetắsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐξέτᾰσῐν tḕn exétăsĭn |
τὼ ἐξετᾰ́σει tṑ exetắsei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐξετᾰ́σεις tā̀s exetắseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐξέτᾰσῐ exétăsĭ |
ἐξετᾰ́σει exetắsei |
ἐξετᾰ́σεις exetắseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: εξέταση (exétasi)
Further reading
- “ἐξέτασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐξέτασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐξέτασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette