ὀχύρωσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀχυρόω (okhuróō) + -σις (-sis), from ὀχυρός (okhurós, “firm, lasting”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.kʰý.rɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈkʰy.ro.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈçy.ro.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈçy.ro.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈçi.ro.sis/
Noun
ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς • (okhúrōsis) f (genitive ὀχῠρώσεως); third declension
- an act of making secure, fortification
- Josephus, The Jewish War 7.6,2
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς; τῆς ὀχῠρώσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς hē okhúrōsis | τὼ ὀχῠρώσει tṑ okhurṓsei | αἱ ὀχῠρώσεις hai okhurṓseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀχῠρώσεως tês okhurṓseōs | τοῖν ὀχῠρωσέοιν toîn okhurōséoin | τῶν ὀχῠρώσεων tôn okhurṓseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀχῠρώσει têi okhurṓsei | τοῖν ὀχῠρωσέοιν toîn okhurōséoin | ταῖς ὀχῠρώσεσῐ / ὀχῠρώσεσῐν taîs okhurṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὀχῠ́ρωσῐν tḕn okhúrōsin | τὼ ὀχῠρώσει tṑ okhurṓsei | τᾱ̀ς ὀχῠρώσεις tā̀s okhurṓseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀχῠ́ρωσῐ okhúrōsi | ὀχῠρώσει okhurṓsei | ὀχῠρώσεις okhurṓseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ὀχύρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀχύρωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀχύρωσις 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