τμῆσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) + -σῐς (-sis, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tmɛ̂ː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtme̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
Noun
τμῆσῐς • (tmêsis) f (genitive τμήσεως); third declension
- cutting
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ τμῆσῐς; τῆς τμήσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τμῆσῐς hē tmêsis | τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei | αἱ τμήσεις hai tmḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τμήσεως tês tmḗseōs | τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin | τῶν τμήσεων tôn tmḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τμήσει têi tmḗsei | τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin | ταῖς τμήσεσῐ / τμήσεσῐν taîs tmḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τμῆσῐν tḕn tmêsin | τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei | τᾱ̀ς τμήσεις tā̀s tmḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | τμῆσῐ tmêsi | τμήσει tmḗsei | τμήσεις tmḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Bulgarian: тмезис (tmezis)
- → Finnish: tmeesi
- Greek: τμήση (tmísi)
- → Latin: tmēsis
- → Dutch: tmesis
- → English: tmesis
- → French: tmèse
- → German: Tmesis
- → Italian: tmesi
- → Portuguese: tmese
- → Spanish: tmesis
- → Polish: tmeza
- → Russian: тме́зис (tmézis)
- → Serbo-Croatian: тмеза / tmeza
References
- “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τμῆσις 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.
- devastation idem, page 220.
- pillage idem, page 613.
- ravage idem, page 673.
- wasting idem, page 965.