ἅλωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /há.lɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.lo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
Noun
ἅλωσῐς • (hálōsis) f (genitive ἁλώσεως); third declension
- capture, conquest
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἅλωσῐς; τῆς ἁλώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἅλωσῐς hē hálōsis | τὼ ἁλώσει tṑ halṓsei | αἱ ἁλώσεις hai halṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἁλώσεως tês halṓseōs | τοῖν ἁλωσέοιν toîn halōséoin | τῶν ἁλώσεων tôn halṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἁλώσει têi halṓsei | ἁλωσέοιν halōséoin | ταῖς ἁλώσεσῐ / ἁλώσεσῐν taîs halṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἅλωσῐν tḕn hálōsin | ἁλώσει halṓsei | τᾱ̀ς ἁλώσεις tā̀s halṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἅλωσῐ hálōsi | ἁλώσει halṓsei | ἁλώσεις halṓseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άλωση (álosi)
Further reading
- ἅλωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅλωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- ἅλωσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅλωσις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G259 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.
- capture idem, page 113.
- fall idem, page 303.
- sack idem, page 728.
- taking idem, page 853.