φίμωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φῑμόω (phīmóō, “to muzzle”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰǐː.mɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰi.mo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸi.mo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfi.mo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.mo.sis/
Noun
φῑ́μωσῐς • (phī́mōsis) f (genitive φῑμώσεως); third declension
- muzzling, silencing of death
- (medicine) phimosis
Declension
Third declension of ἡ φῑ́μωσῐς; τῆς φῑμώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φῑ́μωσῐς hē phī́mōsis | τὼ φῑμώσει tṑ phīmṓsei | αἱ φῑμώσεις hai phīmṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φῑμώσεως tês phīmṓseōs | τοῖν φῑμωσέοιν toîn phīmōséoin | τῶν φῑμώσεων tôn phīmṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φῑμώσει têi phīmṓsei | τοῖν φῑμωσέοιν toîn phīmōséoin | ταῖς φῑμώσεσῐ / φῑμώσεσῐν taîs phīmṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φῑ́μωσῐν tḕn phī́mōsin | τὼ φῑμώσει tṑ phīmṓsei | τᾱ̀ς φῑμώσεις tā̀s phīmṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | φῑ́μωσῐ phī́mōsi | φῑμώσει phīmṓsei | φῑμώσεις phīmṓseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: phimosis
- → Italian: fimosi
Further reading
- φίμωσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φίμωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette