γνῶσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tis, synchronically from γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡnɔ̂ː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡno.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
Noun
γνῶσῐς • (gnôsis) f (genitive γνώσεως); third declension
- inquiry
- knowledge
- fame
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ γνῶσῐς; τῆς γνώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ γνῶσῐς hē gnôsis | τὼ γνώσει tṑ gnṓsei | αἱ γνώσεις hai gnṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς γνώσεως tês gnṓseōs | τοῖν γνωσέοιν toîn gnōséoin | τῶν γνώσεων tôn gnṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ γνώσει têi gnṓsei | τοῖν γνωσέοιν toîn gnōséoin | ταῖς γνώσεσῐ / γνώσεσῐν taîs gnṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν γνῶσῐν tḕn gnôsin | τὼ γνώσει tṑ gnṓsei | τᾱ̀ς γνώσεις tā̀s gnṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | γνῶσῐ gnôsi | γνώσει gnṓsei | γνώσεις gnṓseis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ἀνάγνωσις (anágnōsis)
- ἀπόγνωσις (apógnōsis)
- αὐτογνῶσις (autognôsis)
- διάγνωσις (diágnōsis)
- ἐπίγνωσις (epígnōsis)
- κατάγνωσις (katágnōsis)
- μετάγνωσις (metágnōsis)
- παρανάγνωσις (paranágnōsis)
- πρόγνωσις (prógnōsis)
- προδιάγνωσις (prodiágnōsis)
- σύγγνωσις (súngnōsis)
- συνανάγνωσις (sunanágnōsis)
Descendants
- > Pontic Greek: γνώση (gnósi), γνώς' (gnós') (inherited)
- → Laz: ღნოსი (ğnosi), ნოსი (nosi)
- → Coptic: ⲅⲛⲱⲥⲓⲥ (gnōsis)
- → English: gnosis
- → Irish: gnóis
- → Norwegian: gnosis
- → Greek: γνώση (gnósi)
Further reading
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γνῶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γνῶσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1108 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- examination idem, page 287.
- inquiry idem, page 443.
- investigation idem, page 457.
- knowledge idem, page 472.
- theory idem, page 865.