ζέσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζέω (zéō, “I boil, I seethe”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zé.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈze.sis/
Noun
ζέσῐς • (zésis) f (genitive ζέσεως); third declension
- seething, effervescence, boiling
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ζέσῐς; τῆς ζέσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ζέσῐς hē zésis | τὼ ζέσει tṑ zései | αἱ ζέσεις hai zéseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ζέσεως tês zéseōs | τοῖν ζεσέοιν toîn zeséoin | τῶν ζέσεων tôn zéseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ζέσει têi zései | τοῖν ζεσέοιν toîn zeséoin | ταῖς ζέσεσῐ / ζέσεσῐν taîs zésesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ζέσῐν tḕn zésin | τὼ ζέσει tṑ zései | τᾱ̀ς ζέσεις tā̀s zéseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ζέσῐ zési | ζέσει zései | ζέσεις zéseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ζέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζέσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette