μείωσις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μειόω (meióō, “to lessen, diminish”) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /měː.ɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
Noun
[edit]μείωσῐς • (meíōsis) f (genitive μειώσεως); third declension
- diminution
- waning (of the moon)
- loss (of property)
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μείωσῐς hē meíōsis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | tês meiṓseōs | ||||||||||||
Dative | têi meiṓsei | ||||||||||||
Accusative | tḕn meíōsin | ||||||||||||
Vocative | μείωσῐ meíōsi | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Descendants
Further reading
[edit]- μείωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μείωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “μείωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (small)
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension