lysis
See also: -lysis
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlysis
- (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
- (biochemistry)
- The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules.
- The disintegration or destruction of cells.
- (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease.
- Antonym: crisis
- 1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 183:
- The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis and crisis, one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
edit(medicine) gradual recovery from disease
(chemistry) destruction of cells
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.sis/, [ˈliːs̬is]
Noun
editlysis f (genitive lysis or lyseōs or lysios); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lysis | lysēs lyseis |
Genitive | lysis lyseōs lysios |
lysium |
Dative | lysī | lysibus |
Accusative | lysim lysin lysem1 |
lysēs lysīs |
Ablative | lysī lyse1 |
lysibus |
Vocative | lysis lysi |
lysēs lyseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
edit- English: lysis
References
edit- “lysis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lysis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “lysis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lysis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “lysis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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