μόρφωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μορφόω (morphóō, “to form”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mór.pʰɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmor.pʰo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɸo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmor.fo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmor.fo.sis/
Noun
μόρφωσις • (mórphōsis) f (genitive μορφώσεως); third declension
- shaping
- form, semblance
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ μόρφωσῐς; τῆς μορφώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μόρφωσῐς hē mórphōsis | τὼ μορφώσει tṑ morphṓsei | αἱ μορφώσεις hai morphṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μορφώσεως tês morphṓseōs | τοῖν μορφωσέοιν toîn morphōséoin | τῶν μορφώσεων tôn morphṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μορφώσει têi morphṓsei | τοῖν μορφωσέοιν toîn morphōséoin | ταῖς μορφώσεσῐ / μορφώσεσῐν taîs morphṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μόρφωσῐν tḕn mórphōsin | τὼ μορφώσει tṑ morphṓsei | τᾱ̀ς μορφώσεις tā̀s morphṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόρφωσῐ mórphōsi | μορφώσει morphṓsei | μορφώσεις morphṓseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: morphosis
- Greek: μόρφωση (mórfosi)
References
- μόρφωσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόρφωσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόρφωσις 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
- G3446 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979