αὐτοψία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐτός (autós) +‎ ὄψις (ópsis) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.top.sí.aː/ → /aɸ.topˈsi.a/ → /af.topˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.top.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aʍ.topˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aɸ.topˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /af.topˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /af.topˈsi.a/

Noun

αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ • (autopsĭ́ā) f (genitive αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. seeing with one's own eyes

Declension

First declension of ἡ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ; τῆς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ hē autopsĭ́ā	τὼ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ tṑ autopsĭ́ā	αἱ αὐτοψῐ́αι hai autopsĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς tês autopsĭ́ās	τοῖν αὐτοψῐ́αιν toîn autopsĭ́ain	τῶν αὐτοψῐῶν tôn autopsĭôn
Dative	τῇ αὐτοψῐ́ᾳ têi autopsĭ́āi	τοῖν αὐτοψῐ́αιν toîn autopsĭ́ain	ταῖς αὐτοψῐ́αις taîs autopsĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν αὐτοψῐ́ᾱν tḕn autopsĭ́ān	τὼ αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ tṑ autopsĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς αὐτοψῐ́ᾱς tā̀s autopsĭ́ās
Vocative	αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ autopsĭ́ā	αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ autopsĭ́ā	αὐτοψῐ́αι autopsĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: autopsie (learned)

Further reading

• “αὐτοψία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐτοψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐτοψία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)