ψίλωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ψιλόω (psilóō) +‎ -σις (-sis), from ψιλός (psilós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psǐː.lɔː.sis/ → /ˈpsi.lo.sis/ → /ˈpsi.lo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psǐː.lɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpsi.lo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpsi.lo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpsi.lo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpsi.lo.sis/

Noun

ψῑ́λωσῐς • (psī́lōsis) f (genitive ψῑλώσεως); third declension

1. a stripping bare (of flesh, hair, leaves, etc.)
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 7.19
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Clearchus of Soli, Collected Works 9
   • Archig., ap.Gal. 8.150
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.646d
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 17.11.2
2. (grammar) a writing or pronouncing with the spiritus lenis, or of an unaspirated consonant; psilosis
   • 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 515.37

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ψῑ́λωσῐς; τῆς ψῑλώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ψῑ́λωσῐς hē psī́lōsis	τὼ ψῑλώσει tṑ psīlṓsei	αἱ ψῑλώσεις hai psīlṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ψῑλώσεως tês psīlṓseōs	τοῖν ψῑλωσέοιν toîn psīlōséoin	τῶν ψῑλώσεων tôn psīlṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ψῑλώσει têi psīlṓsei	τοῖν ψῑλωσέοιν toîn psīlōséoin	ταῖς ψῑλώσεσῐ / ψῑλώσεσῐν taîs psīlṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ψῑ́λωσῐν tḕn psī́lōsin	τὼ ψῑλώσει tṑ psīlṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ψῑλώσεις tā̀s psīlṓseis
Vocative	ψῑ́λωσῐ psī́lōsi	ψῑλώσει psīlṓsei	ψῑλώσεις psīlṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: metapsilosis
• → English: psilosis
• → French: psilose
• Greek: ψίλωση (psílosi)

References

• “ψῑ́λωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press