ἄσκησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀσκέω (askéō, “I train”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.kɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.ke̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ci.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ci.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.ci.sis/
Noun
ἄσκησις • (áskēsis) f (genitive ἀσκήσεως); third declension
- exercise, training, practice
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἄσκησῐς; τῆς ἀσκήσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄσκησῐς hē áskēsis | τὼ ἀσκήσει tṑ askḗsei | αἱ ἀσκήσεις hai askḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀσκήσεως tês askḗseōs | τοῖν ἀσκησέοιν toîn askēséoin | τῶν ἀσκήσεων tôn askḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀσκήσει têi askḗsei | τοῖν ἀσκησέοιν toîn askēséoin | ταῖς ἀσκήσεσῐ / ἀσκήσεσῐν taîs askḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄσκησῐν tḕn áskēsin | τὼ ἀσκήσει tṑ askḗsei | τᾱ̀ς ἀσκήσεις tā̀s askḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄσκησῐ áskēsi | ἀσκήσει askḗsei | ἀσκήσεις askḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: ascesis
- French: ascèse
- Latin: ascesis
- Polish: asceza
Further reading
- “ἄσκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄσκησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄσκησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄσκησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cultivation idem, page 189.
- exercise idem, page 291.
- manœuvre idem, page 513.
- observance idem, page 567.
- practice idem, page 631.
- pursuit idem, page 659.
- study idem, page 829.
- training idem, page 887.