ἀντίθεσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓ντῐτῐ́θημῐ (antitíthēmi, “to set against”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /an.tí.tʰe.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /anˈti.tʰe.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /anˈti.θe.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /anˈti.θe.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /anˈdi.θe.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς • (antíthesis) f (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως); third declension
- opposition, resistance
- contradiction
- (rhetoric) antithesis
- (grammar) change or transposition of a letter
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς hē antíthesis | τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει tṑ antithései | αἱ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις hai antithéseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως tês antithéseōs | τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐθεσέοιν toîn antitheséoin | τῶν ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεων tôn antithéseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει têi antithései | τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐθεσέοιν toîn antitheséoin | ταῖς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεσῐ / ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεσῐν taîs antithésesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐν tḕn antíthesin | τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει tṑ antithései | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις tā̀s antithéseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐ antíthesi | ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει antithései | ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις antithéseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αντίθεση (antíthesi)
- → Latin: antithesis
- → English: antithesis
- → French: antithèse
Further reading
- “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀντίθεσις 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
- ἀντίθεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G477 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- antithesis idem, page 32.