κάθαρσις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόθᾰρσῐς (kótharsis) – Elean
Etymology
From κᾰθαίρω (kathaírō, “to cleanse”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.tʰar.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.tʰar.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.θar.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.θar.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.θar.sis/
Noun
κᾰ́θᾰρσῐς • (kátharsis) f (genitive κᾰθᾰ́ρσεως); third declension
- cleansing, purification (in a moral/spiritual sense)
- clarification, explanation
- purging, evacuation (in a medical sense)
- pruning trees, shearing grain, clearing land
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κᾰ́θᾰρσῐς; τῆς κᾰθᾰ́ρσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́θᾰρσῐς hē kátharsis | τὼ κᾰθᾰ́ρσει tṑ kathársei | αἱ κᾰθᾰ́ρσεις hai kathárseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰθᾰ́ρσεως tês kathárseōs | τοῖν κᾰθᾰρσέοιν toîn katharséoin | τῶν κᾰθᾰ́ρσεων tôn kathárseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰθᾰ́ρσει têi kathársei | τοῖν κᾰθᾰρσέοιν toîn katharséoin | ταῖς κᾰθᾰ́ρσεσῐ / κᾰθᾰ́ρσεσῐν taîs kathársesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́θᾰρσῐν tḕn kátharsin | τὼ κᾰθᾰ́ρσει tṑ kathársei | τᾱ̀ς κᾰθᾰ́ρσεις tā̀s kathárseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́θᾰρσῐ kátharsi | κᾰθᾰ́ρσει kathársei | κᾰθᾰ́ρσεις kathárseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: catharsis
- Portuguese: catarse
- Latin: catharsis
- Russian: ка́тарсис m (kátarsis)
References
- “κάθαρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάθαρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάθαρσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cleansing idem, page 136.
- disinfection idem, page 234.
- expurgation idem, page 296.
- lustration idem, page 505.
- purging idem, page 658.
- purification idem, page 658.
- sanctification idem, page 733.
- washing idem, page 964.