ἀνάλυσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ná.ly.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈna.ly.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈna.ly.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈna.ly.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈna.li.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓νᾰ́λῠσῐς • (análusis) f (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰλῠ́σεως); third declension
- a loosing, releasing
- a dissolving, resolution of a whole into its parts, analysis
- (in Aristotle's Logic) the reduction of the imperfect figures into the perfect one
- the solution of a problem
- retrogression, retirement, departure
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἀνάλυσῐς; τῆς ἀναλύσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀνάλυσῐς hē análusis | τὼ ἀναλύσει tṑ analúsei | αἱ ἀναλύσεις hai analúseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀναλύσεως tês analúseōs | τοῖν ἀναλυσέοιν toîn analuséoin | τῶν ἀναλύσεων tôn analúseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀναλύσει têi analúsei | τοῖν ἀναλυσέοιν toîn analuséoin | ταῖς ἀναλύσεσῐ / ἀναλύσεσῐν taîs analúsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀνάλυσῐν tḕn análusin | τὼ ἀναλύσει tṑ analúsei | τᾱ̀ς ἀναλύσεις tā̀s analúseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀνάλυσῐ análusi | ἀναλύσει analúsei | ἀναλύσεις analúseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- σύνθεσις (súnthesis)
Descendants
- Greek: ανάλυση (análysi)
- → Latin: analysis
- English: analysis
- French: analyse
- Italian: analisi
- Portuguese: análise
- Russian: анализ (analiz)
- Spanish: análisis
Further reading
- ἀνάλυσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀνάλυσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀνάλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀνάλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- G359 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- ἀνάλυσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften