ἴασις

ἴασις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῑ̓ήσῐς (īḗsis) – Ionic

Etymology

From ῑ̓ᾰ́ομαι (īáomai, “I heal”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǐː.aː.sis/ → /ˈi.a.sis/ → /ˈi.a.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǐː.aː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.sis/

Noun

ῑ̓́ᾱσῐς • (ī́āsis) f (genitive ῑ̓ᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. cure, remedy
2. repair, mend

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῑ̓́ᾱσῐς; τῆς ῑ̓ᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓́ᾱσῐς hē ī́āsis	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱ́σει tṑ īā́sei	αἱ ῑ̓ᾱ́σεις hai īā́seis
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓ᾱ́σεως tês īā́seōs	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱσέοιν toîn īāséoin	τῶν ῑ̓ᾱ́σεων tôn īā́seōn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓ᾱ́σει têi īā́sei	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱσέοιν toîn īāséoin	ταῖς ῑ̓ᾱ́σεσῐ / ῑ̓ᾱ́σεσῐν taîs īā́sesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̓́ᾱσῐν tḕn ī́āsin	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱ́σει tṑ īā́sei	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓ᾱ́σεις tā̀s īā́seis
Vocative	ῑ̓́ᾱσῐ ī́āsi	ῑ̓ᾱ́σει īā́sei	ῑ̓ᾱ́σεις īā́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἴασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἴασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἴασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2392 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.
  • balm idem, page 60.
  • cure idem, page 190.
  • healing idem, page 391.
  • medicine idem, page 521.
  • remedy idem, page 692.