ἔμβασις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐμ- (em-) + βάσις (básis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ém.ba.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈem.ba.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈem.ba.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈem.ba.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈem.ba.sis/
Noun
ἔμβᾰσῐς • (émbăsĭs) f (genitive ἐμβάσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἔμβᾰσῐς hē émbăsĭs |
τὼ ἐμβᾰ́σει tṑ embắsei |
αἱ ἐμβᾰ́σεις hai embắseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐμβᾰ́σεως tês embắseōs |
τοῖν ἐμβᾰσέοιν toîn embăséoin |
τῶν ἐμβᾰ́σεων tôn embắseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐμβᾰ́σει tēî embắsei |
τοῖν ἐμβᾰσέοιν toîn embăséoin |
ταῖς ἐμβᾰ́σεσῐ / ἐμβᾰ́σεσῐν taîs embắsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἔμβᾰσῐν tḕn émbăsĭn |
τὼ ἐμβᾰ́σει tṑ embắsei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐμβᾰ́σεις tā̀s embắseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἔμβᾰσῐ émbăsĭ |
ἐμβᾰ́σει embắsei |
ἐμβᾰ́σεις embắseis | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- Μονεμβασία (Monembasía)
Further reading
- ἔμβασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔμβασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἔμβασις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἔμβασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “ἔμβασις”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.