αὐτοψία

αὐτοψία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐτός (autós) +‎ ὄψις (ópsis) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.top.sí.aː/ → /aɸ.topˈsi.a/ → /af.topˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.top.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aʍ.topˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aɸ.topˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /af.topˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /af.topˈsi.a/

Noun

αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ • (autopsíā) f (genitive αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. seeing with one's own eyes

Declension

First declension of ἡ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ; τῆς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ hē autopsíā	τὼ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ tṑ autopsíā	αἱ αὐτοψῐ́αι hai autopsíai
Genitive	τῆς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς tês autopsíās	τοῖν αὐτοψῐ́αιν toîn autopsíain	τῶν αὐτοψῐῶν tôn autopsiôn
Dative	τῇ αὐτοψῐ́ᾳ têi autopsíāi	τοῖν αὐτοψῐ́αιν toîn autopsíain	ταῖς αὐτοψῐ́αις taîs autopsíais
Accusative	τὴν αὐτοψῐ́ᾱν tḕn autopsíān	τὼ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ tṑ autopsíā	τᾱ̀ς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς tā̀s autopsíās
Vocative	αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ autopsíā	αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ autopsíā	αὐτοψῐ́αι autopsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: autopsie (learned)

Further reading

• αὐτοψία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐτοψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐτοψία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2022)