λέξις
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom λέγω (légō, “speak”) + -σῐς (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lék.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/
Noun
editλέξῐς • (léxis) f (genitive λέξεως); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λέξῐς hē léxis |
τὼ λέξει tṑ léxei |
αἱ λέξεις hai léxeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λέξεως tês léxeōs |
τοῖν λεξέοιν toîn lexéoin |
τῶν λέξεων tôn léxeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λέξει têi léxei |
τοῖν λεξέοιν toîn lexéoin |
ταῖς λέξεσῐ / λέξεσῐν taîs léxesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λέξῐν tḕn léxin |
τὼ λέξει tṑ léxei |
τᾱ̀ς λέξεις tā̀s léxeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέξῐ léxi |
λέξει léxei |
λέξεις léxeis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λέγω (> DER > 3. λέξις)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 841-2
Further reading
edit- “λέξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λέξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- diction idem, page 222.
- expression idem, page 296.
- language idem, page 475.
- parlance idem, page 593.
- phraseology idem, page 610.
- pronunciation idem, page 653.
- style idem, page 830.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- verbiage idem, page 948.
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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