ἔκλυσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκλύω (eklúō, “set free”) + -σις (-sis, “a suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.kly.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.kly.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.kly.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.kly.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.kli.sis/
Noun
ἔκλῠσῐς • (éklusis) f (genitive ἐκλύσεως); third declension
- release, deliverance from a thing
- weakening of an opponent's case
- feebleness, faintness
- laxity of style
- (music) lowering of the voice through three quarter-tones
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἔκλῠσῐς hē éklusis |
τὼ ἐκλῠ́σει tṑ eklúsei |
αἱ ἐκλῠ́σεις hai eklúseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐκλῠ́σεως tês eklúseōs |
τοῖν ἐκλῠσέοιν toîn ekluséoin |
τῶν ἐκλῠ́σεων tôn eklúseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐκλῠ́σει têi eklúsei |
τοῖν ἐκλῠσέοιν toîn ekluséoin |
ταῖς ἐκλῠ́σεσῐ / ἐκλῠ́σεσῐν taîs eklúsesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἔκλῠσῐν tḕn éklusin |
τὼ ἐκλῠ́σει tṑ eklúsei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐκλῠ́σεις tā̀s eklúseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἔκλῠσῐ éklusi |
ἐκλῠ́σει eklúsei |
ἐκλῠ́σεις eklúseis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἔκλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔκλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἔκλυσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἔκλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- deliverance idem, page 208.
- discharge idem, page 229.
- emancipation idem, page 266.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- liberation idem, page 488.
- release idem, page 690.
- riddance idem, page 713.
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