λέξις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λέγω (légō, “speak”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lék.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
Noun
λέξῐς • (léxis) f (genitive λέξεως); third declension
- a saying, speech
- a way of speaking, diction, style
- word, phrase
- explanation
- (grammar) a word peculiar in form or significance
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λέξῐς; τῆς λέξεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λέξῐς hē léxis | τὼ λέξει tṑ léxei | αἱ λέξεις hai léxeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λέξεως tês léxeōs | τοῖν λεξέοιν toîn lexéoin | τῶν λέξεων tôn léxeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λέξει têi léxei | τοῖν λεξέοιν toîn lexéoin | ταῖς λέξεσῐ / λέξεσῐν taîs léxesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λέξῐν tḕn léxin | τὼ λέξει tṑ léxei | τᾱ̀ς λέξεις tā̀s léxeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέξῐ léxi | λέξει léxei | λέξεις léxeis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
Related terms
- ἀντίλεξις (antílexis)
- διάλεξις (diálexis)
- ἔκλεξις (éklexis)
- ἐπίλεξις (epílexis)
- εὔλεξις (eúlexis)
- κατάλεξις (katálexis)
- λεκτικός (lektikós)
- λεξικός (lexikós)
- λεξικόν (lexikón)
- περίλεξις (perílexis)
- πολυλέξις (poluléxis)
- προδιάλεξις (prodiálexis)
- σύλλεξις (súllexis)
Descendants
- Greek: λέξη (léxi)
- → English: lexis
- → Latin: lexis
- → Old Georgian: ლექსი (leksi)
- Georgian: ლექსი (leksi)
- → Bats: ლექს (leks)
- → Laz: ლექსი (leksi)
- → Mingrelian: ლერსი (lersi), ლერცი (lerci), ლექსი (leksi)
- → Svan: ლექს (leks)
Further reading
- “λέξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λέξις 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.
- diction idem, page 222.
- expression idem, page 296.
- language idem, page 475.
- parlance idem, page 593.
- phraseology idem, page 610.
- pronunciation idem, page 653.
- style idem, page 830.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- verbiage idem, page 948.