ἔνθεσις

Ancient Greek

From ἐντῐ́θημῐ (entĭ́thēmĭ, “to put in”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).

ἔνθεσῐς • (énthesĭs) f (genitive ἐνθέσεως); third declension

putting in, insertion
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 426c:
  ἡ δὲ ἀρχὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν ξενικὸν δὲ τοὔνομα τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἰέναι. […]· νῦν δὲ ἀπό τε τοῦ ξενικοῦ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ ἦτα μεταβολῆς καὶ τῆς τοῦ νῦ ἐνθέσεως κίνησις κέκληται, ἔδει δὲ κιείνησιν καλεῖσθαι [ἢ εἶσιν].
  hē dè arkhḕ apò toû kíein xenikòn dè toúnoma toûto d’ estìn iénai. […]; nûn dè apó te toû xenikoû toû kíein kaì apò tês toû êta metabolês kaì tês toû nû enthéseōs kínēsis kéklētai, édei dè kieínēsin kaleîsthai [ḕ eîsin].
  The origin [of the word kinesis] is from kiein which is a foreign term and means "to go". […]; now however, from both the foreign nature of the verb kiein and from the change of the letter eta and the insertion of nu, it has been called kinēsis, although it ought to have been called kieinēsis [or kieineisis].
anything put in the mouth; mouthful
(horticulture) grafting; graft

Third declension of ἡ ἔνθεσῐς; τῆς ἐνθέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔνθεσῐς hē énthesĭs	τὼ ἐνθέσει tṑ enthései	αἱ ἐνθέσεις hai enthéseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐνθέσεως tês enthéseōs	τοῖν ἐνθεσέοιν toîn entheséoin	τῶν ἐνθέσεων tôn enthéseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐνθέσει tēî enthései	τοῖν ἐνθεσέοιν toîn entheséoin	ταῖς ἐνθέσεσῐ / ἐνθέσεσῐν taîs enthésesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔνθεσῐν tḕn énthesĭn	τὼ ἐνθέσει tṑ enthései	τᾱ̀ς ἐνθέσεις tā̀s enthéseis
Vocative	ἔνθεσῐ énthesĭ	ἐνθέσει enthései	ἐνθέσεις enthéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἔνθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press